Definition of "forbid"

forbid

/fɚˈbɪd/

verb
third-person singular simple present forbids, present participle forbidding, simple past forbade or forbad or forbid, past participle forbidden
1. (transitive) To disallow; to proscribe.
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  […] the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.
  1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons
2. (ditransitive) To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
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  Have I not forbid her my house?
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene ii]
3. (transitive) To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.
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  a blaze of glory that forbids the sight
  1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To accurse; to blast.
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  He shall live a man forbid.
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene iii]
5. (transitive, obsolete) To defy; to challenge.
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  So there is a resemblance between the partie that here gives licence to come to the tree of life, and the other that forbid to come to it. The one threatned with a sword; the other promiseth to the persons that keep the condition here expressed
  1598, Lancelot Andrewes, sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London

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