prohibitoryadj.

1564 T. Harding Answere to Iuelles Chalenge xiii. f. 142 For they saye, an edicte prohibitorie in such thinges which are not wholy in their kynde vnlawfull, forbydding speciall cases, graunteth the reste, and doth permitte all that, which is not specially forbydden.

a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 428 Which words be most prohibitory.

a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 318 Lust may be restrained..without prohibitory lawes.

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xiv. §7 217 The first of them [sc. parts of a Law] which is called distributive, is Prohibitory, and speaks to all, the second which is styled vindicative, or pænary, is mandatory, and onely speaks to publique Ministers.

1758 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. Introd. ii. 59 These prohibitory laws do not make the transgression a moral offence, or sin.

1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 390 We have been obliged to guard it from foreign competition by very strict prohibitory laws.

1854 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Democrat 11 Apr. 2/2 Gov. Seymore, of New York, vetoes the Prohibitory Liquor Law.

1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. I. v. ii. 135 An enactment prohibitory of the imposition of a subsidy on wool.

1899 J. R. Rowntree & A. Sherwell Temperance Problems (1901) iii. 42/1 The agitation in favour of prohibition in Maine began early in the thirties... The efforts of [Generals Appleton and Dow]..resulted in 1846 in the passage of the first Prohibitory Act.

1912 Catholic Encycl. XV. 235/2 A certain number of authors..believed in the existence of a Patristic tradition which regarded the prohibitory passages of Holy Scripture as of universal application.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage xvi. 202 The smallest room in the house invariably has prohibitory notices of a stern and intimate character.

2004 C. A. Israel Before Scopes iv. 78 Many state Evangelicals led and joined the campaigns for effective prohibitory legislation in Tennessee.

1755 S. Johnson Gram. Eng. Tongue in Dict. The Imperative prohibitory is seldom applied in the second person..without the word do; as Stop him, but do not hurt him.

1925 G. R. Driver in A. S. Peake People & Bk. 97 Since lû and lâ implied a precative and a prohibitory sense respectively, there was no risk of confusion between these forms.

1970 Mod. Asian Stud. 9 424/2 mo⁴..as a prohibitory particle, is post-classical.

1767 London Mag. July 329/2 The importation of corn from Ireland was then so far from being prohibited or loaded with any prohibitory duty.

1793 T. Jefferson Public Papers xii. 438 Other salted provisions pay that duty in all cases, and salted fish is made lately to pay the prohibitory one of twenty livres the quintal.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 377 The cost of conveyance amounted to a prohibitory tax on many useful articles.

1892 Times 29 Apr. 9/2 Bishops at present have to get rid of criminous clerks at a cost which is almost prohibitory.

1925 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 15 546 The penalties provided were so lenient..that they were not prohibitory.

1972 Times 27 Mar. 22/6 Prices not prohibitory to the consumer, yet sufficiently high to provide for the well-managed mines profits beyond the dreams of avarice.

2002 Chicago (Nexis) 26 Dec. n1 Books printed in unreadable type, on hand-made paper, on hand presses, and sold at prices prohibitory to all except the rich.

1836 T. Cartwright Let. 14 May in M. Mösslang et al. Brit. Envoys Germany (2002) II. 80 In as far as the Tariff acts prohibitorily upon British goods, it happens to affect some of the low Cottons.

1851 Times 25 Jan. 6/5 The law as it stands, ought to act prohibitorily, and not compulsatively.

1908 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 32 15 Laws have been obtained subjecting express and freight offices..to a mulct tax, which to a large extent has operated prohibitorily.

1990 Columbia Law Rev. 90 1534 The equal protection clause does not simply seek prohibitorily to screen corrupting preferences out of the utility-determining political machine.