To prohibit (an action, a practice, a sin), to forbid (someone to do something);--usually with personal indirect object: (a) with that clause, usually neg. & subjunctive, as direct object; (b) with infin. as direct object; (c) with noun, pron., or ger. as direct object.

Participles used attributively: (a) forbeding, that prohibits, prohibitory; (b) forboden, not permitted, prohibited; ~ day, a day on which courts of law must be closed; ~ lau, a law which prohibits; ~ night, the evening of a fast-day.

(a) To stop or restrain (someone); to control (someone) [quot. Lay.Brut]; (b) ~ (the tongue, the foot) from, to draw back or withhold from (evil-doing).

(a) To deny or refuse (something to someone); to make (something) taboo or prohibited; (b) to close or bar (something against someone), to block (a passage, etc., to someone), to defend (a country against an invader); (c) to exclude (someone from a place), deny entrance to (someone).

To announce (a prohibition), to make or proclaim (a prohibitory law).

(a) To deny or contradict (something), to oppose (a law, a plan, etc.); (b) to abandon (a custom), forgo or postpone (a festival); (c) to reject (something).

Med. and surg.: (a) To stop or hinder (a bodily function); to prevent or alleviate (disease, injury, pain); forbeding medicines, preventive medicines; (b) to make (an operation, a treatment) impossible or undesirable.

In exclamations: (a) with that clause: God (Christ) ~, as God ~, etc.; (b) with but plus indep. clause; (c) with pronoun objects or absol.: Christ (God) it ~, Christ (Lord) it me ~, drighten (God) ~, as Christ me (the) ~, God (Lord) ~ it elles, als (as, elles, that, which) God ~, etc.