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Definition of Prohibits
1. prohibit [v] - See also: prohibit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prohibits
Literary usage of Prohibits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"It prohibits the use of political or other influence to secure promotion or
assignment, ... It prohibits the removal of any employee for political reasons, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"2, of the Constitution, which prohibits the passage of "any local, private or
special act * * * authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1921)
"... own force invalidates every legislative act of Congress, state Legislatures,
or territorial assemblies, authorizing or sanctioning what it prohibits. 7. ..."
4. The Autobiography of Sir John Bramston: K.B., of Skreens, in the Hundred of by Sir John Bramston, Baron Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1845)
"The King, by a longe proclamation of the 26th of October, The King, by prohibits
telling or spreading false news, by writing, £c. or prohibits the ,.,. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"HE prohibits CHRISTIANS FROM TEACHING. C33 soon afterwards imitated by the wisdom
of an orthodox prince. The peculiar distinctions which policy has bestowed ..."
6. Elements of International Law by Henry Wheaton, Richard Henry Dana (1866)
"... and naval stores, he sometimes prohibits, and at others permits, according to
the existing circumstances of the war. (a) As to the Declaration of Paris, ..."