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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forbid

For·bid′ (fŏr·bĭd′), v. t. [imp. Forbade (-băd′); p. p. Forbidden (-bĭd′d'n) (Forbid, [Obs.]); p. pr. & vb. n. Forbidding.] [OE. forbeden, AS. forbeódan; pref. for- + beódan to bid; akin to D. verbieden, G. verbieten, Icel. fyrirbjōða, forboða, Sw. förbjuda, Dan. forbyde. See Bid, v. t.] 1. To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict.

More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. Shak.

2. To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.

Have I not forbid her my house? Shak.

3. To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. Dryden.

4. To accurse; to blast. [Obs.]

He shall live a man forbid. Shak.

5. To defy; to challenge. [Obs.] L. Andrews.

Syn. — To prohibit; interdict; hinder; preclude; withhold; restrain; prevent. See Prohibit.

For·bid′ (fôr·bĭd′), v. i. To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder. "I did not or forbid." Milton.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.