单词 | prohibitor |
释义 | prohibitorn. A person who or thing which forbids, bans, or restricts something; (also) a person who is in favour of a prohibition. Cf. prohibiter n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > one who prohibits forbidderc1449 prohibiter1608 inhibiter1611 prohibitor1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Prohibeur, a prohibitor. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 24 Socrates,..never needed any exhorter, but sometimes a prohibitour. 1734 P. Delaney Doctr. Abstinence from Blood Defended 178 Whatever the Forbidden Fruit was in the Wisdom of the Prohibitor, was it not, with regard to Adam, a positive Institution? 1782 F. Burney Cecilia III. ix. xi. 236 No prohibitor appeared, the [marriage] ceremony was performed without any interruption. 1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration 27 Make it still more imperative upon the prohibitors to produce some irresistible authority. 1880 Evening Gaz. (Port Jervis, N.Y.) 30 Oct. 2/4 Such duties..act as prohibitors of imports. 1913 Washington Post 13 Aug. 4/2 Out upon the whole breed..of universal regulators of man's duties and prohibitors of his vagrant moods! 1981 Polit. Theory 9 75 This principle requires prohibitors, under specified conditions, to compensate those disadvantaged by the prohibition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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