1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some
action; interdict.
The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of
prohibitions.
Tillotson.
2. 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. Blackstone.
By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself.
Pro`hi*bi"tion*ist, n.
1. One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a
protectionist.
2. One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and
manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
Pro*hib"it*ive, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.] That prohibits; prohibitory;
as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
Pro*hib"it*o*ry (?), a. [L. prohibitorius.] Tending to prohibit,
forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory
law; a prohibitory price.
Prohibitory index. (R. C. Ch.) See under Index.
Proin (proin), v. t. [See Prune to trim.] To lop; to trim; to prune; to
adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms.
Chapman.