Meaning of PROHIBITION
| Pronunciation: | | `prowu'bishun
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- [n] the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance"
- [n] a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US"
- [n] a decree that prohibits something
- [n] refusal to approve or assent to
- [n] the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment
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| | Synonyms: | | ban, forbiddance, inhibition, interdiction, prohibition era, proscription |
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| | See Also: | | action, banning, banning-order, cease and desist order, decree, edict, enjoining, enjoinment, fiat, forbiddance, forbidding, injunction, law, order, period, period of time, refusal, rescript, time period | |
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| | Definition: | | \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. prohibitio: cf. F.
prohibition.]
1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction
forbidding some action; interdict.
The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists
mostly of prohibitions. --Tillotson.
2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of
alcoholic liquors as beverages.
{Writ of prohibition} (Law), a writ issued by a superior
tribunal, directed to an inferior court, commanding the
latter to cease from the prosecution of a suit depending
before it. --Blackstone.
Note: By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.
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