To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
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To cut off from entrance, as if by a bar or barrier; to preclude; to hinder from approach, entry, or enjoyment; to shut out or exclude; to deny or refuse; -- with from, and sometimes with of.
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To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
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To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
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of Forbid
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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
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To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.
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One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.
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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
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To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, an…
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To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.
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An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.
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To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
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Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
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Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
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Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
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Hindrance from approach; exclusion.
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Avoidable.
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Avoidable.
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The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
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The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
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To make penal.
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To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; t…
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To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averte…
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To empty.
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A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…
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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
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To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…
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To hinder; to fend off; to avert; to prevent the approach of; to forbid or prohibit. See Forfend.
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To prohibit; to forbid; to avert.
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To meet in the way.
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To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
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