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prohibitory, a.|prəʊˈhɪbɪtərɪ|
[ad. L. prōhibitōri-us restraining, f. prohibitor: see -ory.]
1. = prohibitive 1; esp. with reference to the common sale of intoxicating liquors, as in prohibitory law, prohibitory movement, prohibitory party, etc.
a1591H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 428 Which words be most prohibitory. a1602W. Perkins Cases Consc. (1619) 318 Lust may be restrained..without prohibitory lawes. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxxii. 496 This law is entirely prohibitory. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 390 We have been obliged to guard it from foreign competition by very strict prohibitory laws. 1884S. Dowell Taxation v. ii. I. 135 An enactment prohibitory of the imposition of a subsidy on wool. 1899[see prohibition 4].
2. = prohibitive 2.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 377 The cost of conveyance amounted to a prohibitory tax on many useful articles. 1881Sir W. Thomson in Nature 8 Sept. 434/1 This..is obviously prohibitory of every scheme for economising tidal energy by means of artificial dock-basins.
3. Gram. = prohibitive a. 3.
1925G. R. Driver in A. S. Peake People & Bk. 97 Since lû and lâ implied a precative and a prohibitory sense respectively, there was no risk of confusion between these forms.
Hence proˈhibitorily adv., in a prohibitory way, with prohibitory effect.
1876R. Hart Land of Sinim (1901) 202 That foreign goods..are either differentially or prohibitorily taxed. |