2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prohibition \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
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
prohibition
n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920
the 18th amendment to the Constitution established
prohibition in the US"
2: a decree that prohibits something [syn: {ban}, {interdiction},
{proscription}]
3: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic
beverages was prohibited in the United States by a
constitutional amendment [syn: {prohibition era}]
4: refusal to approve or assent to
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