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prohibition 音标拼音: [pr,oəb'ɪʃən] n. 禁止,禁令,禁酒,禁酒运动 禁止,禁令,禁酒,禁酒运动 prohibition n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" 2: a decree that prohibits something [synonym: {prohibition}, {ban}, {proscription}] 3: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment [synonym: {prohibition}, {prohibition era}] 4: refusal to approve or assent to 5: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [synonym: {prohibition}, {inhibition}, {forbiddance}] Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. The period of 1920 to 1932 in the United States, during which sale of alcoholic beverages were forbidden by the consitution. [PJC] Prohibition \Pro`hi*bi"tion\, n. [L. prohibitio: cf. F. prohibition.] 1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. [1913 Webster] The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] 2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Note: By ellipsis, prohibition is used for the writ itself. [1913 Webster] 79 Moby Thesaurus words for "prohibition": Eighteenth Amendment, Volstead Act, arrest, arrestation, ban, banning, bar, barring, blockade, boycott, check, circumscription, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, debarment, debarring, deceleration, demarcation, determent, deterrence, disallowance, disallowing, discouragement, embargo, estoppel, exception, exclusion, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, halt, hindrance, inadmissibility, inhibition, injunction, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, legal restraint, lockout, monopoly, narrowing, nonadmission, obviation, omission, outlawing, outlawry, preclusion, prevention, prohibitionism, proscribing, proscription, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, rein, rejection, relegation, repudiation, restraint, restraint of trade, restriction, retardation, retrenchment, self-control, slowing down, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, taboo, tariff wall, thought control PROHIBITION, practice. The name of a writ issued by a superior court,
directed to the judge and parties of a suit in an inferior court, commanding them to cease from the prosecution of the same, upon a suggestion that the cause originally, or some collateral matter arising therein, does not belong to that jurisdiction, but to the cognizance of some other court. 3 Bl. Com. 112; Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t. Saund. Index, h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; 2 Sell. Pr. 308; Ayliffe's Parerg. 434; 2 Hen. Bl. 2. The writ of prohibition may also be issued when, having jurisdiction, the court has attempted to proceed by rules differing from those which ought to be observed; Bull. N. P. 219; or when, by the exercise of its jurisdiction, the inferior court would defeat a legal right. 2 Chit. Pr. 355.
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