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Forbidden   /fˈɔrbɪdən/  /fərrbˈɪdən/   Listen
verb
Forbid  v. t.  (past forbade; past part. forbidden, obs. forbid; pres. part. forbidding)  
1.
To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict. "More than I have said... The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon."
2.
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter. "Have I not forbid her my house?"
3.
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army. "A blaze of glory that forbids the sight."
4.
To accurse; to blast. (Obs.) "He shall live a man forbid."
5.
To defy; to challenge. (Obs.)
Synonyms: To prohibit; interdict; hinder; preclude; withhold; restrain; prevent. See Prohibit.


Forbid  v. i.  (past forbade; past part. forbidden, obs. forbid; pres. part. forbidding)  To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder. "I did not or forbid."


adjective
Forbidden  adj.  Prohibited; interdicted. "I know no spells, use no forbidden arts."
Forbidden fruit.
(a)
Any coveted unlawful pleasure, so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden.
(b)
(Bot.) A small variety of shaddock (Citrus decumana). The name is given in different places to several varieties of Citrus fruits.





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"Forbidden" Quotes from Famous Books



... between the men and the second mate, the mild-mannered and peace-loving skipper had forbidden the crew to wear sheath knives; but in this exigency I overruled the edict. While the professor went down into his flooded room to doctor his ankle and attend to his instruments, I raided the slop chest, and armed every man of us with a sheath knife and belt; for while we could ...
— The Grain Ship • Morgan Robertson
... happiness of common lives, and left my soul a crucible receptive for refinement only; and Aspiro tempted me to new endeavors by glimpses of the court which Nature holds, wearing Dalmatian mantle and spray-bright crown, in realms forbidden mortals. ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, Issue 2, February, 1864 • Various
... had been forbidden to leave the homestead, unless in company with some grown-up person, he had on several occasions forgotten this injunction, in the ardour of his play, but never so completely as on the day that, tempted by Charlie Chisholm, the most reckless, daring youngster in the neighbourhood, ...
— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley
... doctor had forbidden conversation; and though Amelia knew it would do her no harm, she yielded to her mother's wish ...
— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... the post in genuine army style, and was evidently enjoying it. Mrs. Rayner was flitting nervously in and out of the parlor with a cloud upon her brow, and for once in her life compelled to preserve temporary silence upon the subject uppermost in her thoughts. She had been forbidden to speak of it to her husband; yet she knew he had gone out again with every probability of needing some one to talk to about the matter. She could not well broach the topic in the parlor, because she was not at all sure how Captain and Mrs. Gregg of the ...
— The Deserter • Charles King


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