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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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Etymology of 'Prohibition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The prohibition of spinning may be due to the Church's hallowing of the season and the idea that all work then was wrong. This churchly hallowing may lie also at the root of the Danish tradition that from Christmas ...

— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles

... By compressed acetylene, however, is only to be understood gas compressed to a pressure exceeding one effective atmosphere. Acetylene compressed into porous matter, with or without acetone, is excepted from this prohibition. ...

— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

... then superior of the convent, an austere, ascetic man, who looked with disdain and dislike on all popular recreations, had long set his face against it, and had, moreover, tried every means short of actual prohibition to put an end to the profane amusement. The rustics, however, were not to be debarred by his displeasure from pursuing, perhaps, their only pleasure; and though the pious abbot discountenanced their proceedings, they acquiesced not in ...

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— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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