 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
prohibition
noun
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}, {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
5: 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" [syn: {inhibition},
{forbiddance}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Prohibition \Pro'hi*bi"tion\, noun [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "prohibition":
Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, arrest, arrestation, ban,
banning, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, check, circumscription,
constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb,
curtailment, debarment, debarring, deceleration, demarcation,
determent, deterrence, disallowance, disallowing, discouragement,
embargo, estoppel, exception, exclusion, forbiddance, foreclosure,
forestalling, halt, hindrance, inadmissibility, inhibition,
injunction, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, legal restraint,
lockout, monopoly, narrowing, nonadmission, obviation, omission,
outlawing, outlawry, preclusion, prevention, prohibitionism,
proscribing, proscription, protection, protectionism,
protective tariff, rationing, rein, rejection, relegation,
repudiation, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction,
retardation, retrenchment, self-control, slowing down, stay, stop,
stoppage, stopping, taboo, tariff wall, thought control
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