debarv.
/dɪˈbɑː/ 1. transitive.† d. with infinitive. Obsolete.† e. with simple object: To shut out, exclude.
a. To exclude or shut out from a place or condition; to prevent or prohibit from (entrance, or from having, attaining, or doing anything).
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)] > debar (a person)
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seclude?1531
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limit1722
to shut out1819
stop-list1949
c1430 J. Lydgate Flour of Curtesye (R.) Man alone..Constrained is and by statute bound And debarred from all such pleasaunce.
1557 M. Basset tr. T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1394/1 Vtterlye to debarre from heauen all mankynde for euer.
1586 W. Webbe Disc. Eng. Poetrie sig. D.ii v Poetry is not debarred from any matter, which may be expressed by penne or speeche.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia v. 195 To debarre true men from comming to them for trade.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia ii. iii. 137 His Brother Iohn, was not debarred by the Law from the title.
1775 S. Johnson Taxation no Tyranny 42 The multitudes, who are now debarred from voting.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland vii. 167 The Huguenots were again debarred from holding public offices.
b. const. of. (Cf. to deprive (a person) of.) archaic.
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1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 6 Euery other person..be vtterly excluded and debarred of their said suites.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. v. iii. 72 The thred-bare Clients pouerty; Debarres th' Atturney of his wonted fee?
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 34 Shall we debar youth of such an innocent and harmless Recreation..?
c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies xxii. 41 Tho' now debarr'd of each domestic tear.
1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk II. vi. 141 [To] debar themselves of their real strength and advantages.
c. with double object.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxviii. sig. C2v I..That am debard the benifit of rest. View more context for this quotation
1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) viii. 83 My Pension..was debarred me.
1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 413 He was afterwards debarr'd the Library.
1754 J. Hildrop Misc. Wks. II. 209 To debar him the prayers and Sacraments.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. iii. 619 Persons who profess the Popish religion or marry Papists are, by the Bill of Rights, debarred the Crown.
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1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlii. xxv. 1129 He was..debarred to levie warre upon any confederate allies.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 17 Bishops..are..debarred by their Canons to be Judges of Lay-Peers in like cases.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > be on the outside of [verb (transitive)] > keep or shut out
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to keep outc1425
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to stop outc1530
to hedge out1549
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to hold out1583
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expel1604
immurec1616
1593 T. W. Tears of Fancie xlix, in Poems (1870) 203 If shee debarre it whither shall it go.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 400 That vitall spirit which giueth life vnto all things is debarred, stopped and choaked.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems ii. iii. iii. xlviii Venus orb debars Not Mars, nor enters he with knocks and jars.
2. To set a bar or prohibition against (an action, etc.); to prohibit, prevent, forbid, stop.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > prohibit [verb (transitive)]
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warnc893
forbidOE
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dischargec1450
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a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Aii Somwhat I coulde enferre your consayte to debarre.
1557 Bible (Whittingham) Matt. v. 34 (note) All superfluous othes are vtterly debarred.
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. S1 Debar'd from speech to answere in his case.
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 78 Even as the dore when it is shut, debarres all entrance.
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 152 Its Egress [would have been] utterly debarr'd.
a1848 R. W. Hamilton Rewards & Punishm. (1853) viii. 401 Adherence to such a speculation debars all Christian fellowship.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 73 At the head of the glen is a low height which appears to debar the passage.
Derivatives
deˈbarred adj.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [adjective] > debarred
debarred1640
1640 O. Sedgwick Christs Counsell 184 It is of singular good..to a debarred person.
1709 W. Steuart Coll. & Observ. Ch. Scotl. ii. iv. §14 (1802) 89 The minister and Session having..debarred persons from the Lord's Table..this doctrinal debarring may fear such from partaking.
deˈbarring n. and adj.
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society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > debarring
embarring1563
debarring1604
debarment1656
1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 503 A law for the debarring of young men from the ministery.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. vii. 8 The door of the tabernacle was not of any hard or debarring matter, but a veil.
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