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forbidden, ppl. a.|fəˈbɪd(ə)n| [pa. pple. of forbid v.] a. In senses of the vb.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 35 Þe forbodene appel. a1300Cursor M. 19861 (Cott.) Forboden beistes war [sc. þai] in lede. c1465Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 57 That the said maister Thomas sholde say massis in forboden..placez. 1513Douglas æneis i. ix. 128 Quhen scho to Troy forbodyn hymeneus socht. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 26 Before we enter his forbidden gates. 1619Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent iii. (1629) 293 To eate..forbidden meates, in Lent. 1782Cowper Retirem. 216 His hours of leisure..employs In drawing pictures of forbidden joys. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 109, I entered that forbidden room. b. spec. forbidden degrees, certain degrees of relationship within which persons are forbidden to marry; forbidden fruit, (a) that forbidden to Adam (Gen. ii. 17), also fig.; (b) hence, a name given to several varieties of Citrus, esp. C. decumana; forbidden line, a spectral line produced by a forbidden transition; † forbidden time (Sc. Law), the close time for fish; forbidden transition, a transition between two states of a quantum-mechanical system (as a molecule, atom, or nucleus) that does not conform to some selection rules, esp. those for electric dipole radiation from an unperturbed system.
1609Skene Quon. Attach. lxxxvii. heading, Of forbiddin Tyme in Fishing. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iii. §5 He required from him the observance of that positive command of not eating of the forbidden fruit. 1663Flagellum or O. Cromwell (ed. 2) 5 The stealing and tasting of the forbidden fruit of Soveraignty. 1818M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 212 Some sweet oranges, others bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pomelloes, a name under which forbidden fruit is sometimes sold in this country by fruiterers. 1866Treas. Bot., Forbidden Fruit Citrus Paradisi.—(of London) a variety of the shaddock C. decumana. 1872Gloss. Eccl. Terms (ed. Shipley), Forbidden Degrees. 1923H. L. Brose tr. Sommerfeld's Atomic Struct. & Spectral Lines vi. 366 The forbidden lines..belong to transitions in which n i jumps by two or..by three units. Ibid. 367 In the combinations (spi) in the H.S. or the II N.S. no forbidden transitions occur. 1939J. W. T. Spinks tr. Herzberg's Molecular Spectra & Molecular Struct. I. v. 305 Another forbidden transition, also involving magnetic dipole radiation, has been observed for oxygen. 1957Encycl. Brit. II. 591/1 The two strong green lines in the spectra of the gaseous nebulae prove to be forbidden lines of doubly ionized oxygen. Hence forˈbiddenly adv.; forˈbiddenness.
1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 417 He thinkes..that you haue toucht his Queene Forbiddenly. 1647Boyle Disc. agst. Swearing vii. Wks. 1772 VI. 10 Since the sinfulness of swearing does consist, not in the diversity of our oaths, but in their forbiddenness. 1744Birch Life Boyle 41 Nothing but the forbiddenness of self-dispatch hindered his acting it. |