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PROHIBITED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Forbidden by law
Synonyms:
banned; prohibited
Classified under:
Similar:
illegal (prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Excluded from use or mention
Example:
a taboo subject
Synonyms:
forbidden; out; prohibited; proscribed; taboo; tabu; verboten
Classified under:
Similar:
impermissible (not permitted)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb prohibit
Context examples:
Prohibited! nonsense!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The second day brought them into the cherished, or the prohibited, county of Somerset, for as such was it dwelt on by turns in Marianne's imagination; and in the forenoon of the third they drove up to Cleveland.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Sitting with her on Sunday evening—a wet Sunday evening—the very time of all others when, if a friend is at hand, the heart must be opened, and everything told; no one else in the room, except his mother, who, after hearing an affecting sermon, had cried herself to sleep, it was impossible not to speak; and so, with the usual beginnings, hardly to be traced as to what came first, and the usual declaration that if she would listen to him for a few minutes, he should be very brief, and certainly never tax her kindness in the same way again; she need not fear a repetition; it would be a subject prohibited entirely: he entered upon the luxury of relating circumstances and sensations of the first interest to himself, to one of whose affectionate sympathy he was quite convinced.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And for the world you would not get out without the key and without Mr. Rushworth's authority and protection, or I think you might with little difficulty pass round the edge of the gate, here, with my assistance; I think it might be done, if you really wished to be more at large, and could allow yourself to think it not prohibited.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
