1. An official prohibition; SYN. banning, forbiddance, forbidding.
2. Censure or condemnation especially through social pressure.
3. The summoning in feudal times of the king's vassals for military service.

ETYM Latin prohibitio: cf. French prohibition.
1. A decree that prohibits something; SYN. ban, interdiction, proscription. /> 2. A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages.
3. Refusal to approve or assent to.
4. The period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment; SYN. prohibition era. + prikaži više