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cohibit, v. Now rare.|kəʊˈhɪbɪt|
Also 6 cohybyte, 6–8 cohibite.
[f. L. cohibit- ppl. stem of cohibēre to restrain, f. co(m)- together + habēre to hold: cf. adhibit, exhibit, etc.]
trans. To restrain, check; to restrict.
1544Supplic. Hen. VIII, in Four Supplic. 25 Although synne may be for a tyme cohybyted and restrayned. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 506 A Lambs runnet..powred into water, doth speedily cohibit the bleeding of the nose. 1649Evelyn Liberty & Serv. ii. Misc. (1805) 12 Cohibiting themselves within those bounds which God hath prescribed. a1734North Lives I. 317 It was scarce possible to cohibit people's talk. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Cohibiting medium, a substance which prevents the passage of electricity from one body to another. |