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noun

Prohibition n.

The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. "The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions."

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. Note: By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.

Prohibition n. The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution.

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"Prohibition" Quotes from Famous Books

... Morocco is supreme, and holds the lives and fortunes of his subjects at his will. He is judge and executioner of the laws, which emanate from himself. Taxation is so heavy as to amount to prohibition, in many departments of enterprise; exportation is hampered, agriculture so heavily loaded with taxes that it is only pursued so far as to supply the bare necessities of life; manufacture is just where it was centuries ago, and is performed ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... Elizabeth said little on the subject, she felt deeply, and she feared trouble should the Scottish queen enter her dominion. Another cause of annoyance to Elizabeth was the memory that Leicester had once been deeply impressed with Mary's charms, and had sought her hand in marriage. Elizabeth's prohibition alone had prevented the match. That thought rankled in Elizabeth's heart, and she hated Mary, although her hatred, as in all other cases, was tempered with justice and mercy. This great queen had the brain of a man with its motives, ...

— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major

... that entering into him can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man." The rebuker of the use of sugar urges that blood is used in its manufacture; whereas Scripture forbids the eating of the blood of animals—a prohibition, by the way, which seems to have been maintained longer in Russia than in any other Christian country. The true ground of the opposition to this or that article or habit is to be sought not in these theological arguments, but in its ...

— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, April 1875, Vol. XV., No. 88 • Various

... the earth is given to woman and man, without limit or prohibition. —- Here, woman is punished with subjection to man for breaking a ...

— The Woman's Bible. • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... the same prohibition which they had before heard, was repeated from the same spot. The female attendants screamed, and fled from the chapel; the gentlemen laid their hands on their swords. Ere the first moment of surprise had passed by, the Dwarf stepped from behind ...

— The Black Dwarf • Sir Walter Scott

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