Middle English Dictionary Entry
prohibiciǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | prohibiciǒun n. |
| Etymology | OF prohibicïon & L prohibitio, -iōnis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) An order forbidding or prohibiting certain actions; a forbidding; also, the condemnation of a practice [quot.: ?a1475]; (b) the action of restraining blood from a wound; also, the action of preventing or checking pathological conditions; (c) law a writ issued from a superior court to an ecclesiastical or a local court ordering it to cease the prosecution of a suit on certain grounds; kinges ~, such a writ issued in the name of the king.
Associated quotations
a
- (1429) Proc.Privy C.3.342 : After þe publicacioun of þe saide prohibicioun..þere shal be maad and seeled newe obligaciouns be þe..lordes of þe conseil.
- (1449) Proc.Privy C.6.69 : He mervailleth what shold sture..such ordenance and prohibiciouns..made by the said Duchesse that non Englisshe cloth be brought, solde, or uttred in Hoiland.
- (1457) Lease Ebrington in Campbell Chancellors 1373 : I charge Robt., my sone, and..his issue..that they neuer vexe..ne greve..Sir John..and if they do, knowyng this my prohibicion, I wote wel they shal haue the curse of God.
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)144.245 (v.1:p.429) : Whanne he .. had lernyd the general counsels prohibicyoun, he disprouyd yt bothe in wrud [read: wurd] and wrytynge to the pope.
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)7.287 : But prestes despisynge this prohibicion [L censuras], the pope commaunded that noo man scholde here the masses of prestes havynge concubynes.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)135/30 : Þilk x comaundementis ouȝte not be seid forto be alle preceptis and prohibiciouns maad to us cristen men.
- c1475(c1445) Pecock Donet (Bod 916)177/28 : Amonge comaundementis of god, summe ben biddingis..summe ben forbodis or prohibiciouns as..'þou schalt slee no man'.
- 1532-1897(c1385) Usk TL (Thynne:Skeat)112/54 : This maner of necessite..semeth to some men in-to coaccion, that is to sayne, constrayning or else prohibicion, that is, defendinge.
b
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)155a/a : It sufficeþ forto streine þe wounde to-gider and bynde it wiþ prohibicioun of blood & aquosite out off þe wounde.
- c1475 *Mondeville (Wel 564)156a/a : A surgian owiþ to be moost ententif in prohibicioun of þe þingis aforseid, and also in curacioun of hem.
c
- ?1435 Lond.Chron.Jul.(Jul B.2)36 : Whanne parties..sewden offte tymes to haue prohibicions oute off the Chauncerie, fforto lete and delaye the processe, [etc.].
- a1475 Godstow Reg.(Rwl B.408)261/12 : He submytted hym..to the Iurisdiccion..of ony Iuge of the chirche or seculer..renounsyng..al excepcion agayn-saiyng or contradiccion, kyngis prohibicion, priuylege of courte..by the which the fore-put thyngis myght be lette or elles I-taried agayn.