PROHIBITION : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: PROHIBITION	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prohibition n a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" a decree that prohibits something Synonym(s): prohibition, ban, proscription the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment Synonym(s): prohibition, prohibition era refusal to approve or assent to 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" Synonym(s): prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prohibition \Pro`hibi"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.