Prohibitory
[prə'hibi,tɔ:ri]
Definition
(a.) Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price.
Edited by Brent
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Restrictive, prohibiting, prohibitive.
Typist: Rowland
Examples
- Only three years after this prohibitory law was passed it became obsolete because of the improvements which had been made in the production of these articles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So great was this loss felt that it gave rise to the prohibitory laws and the decadence in England of the manufacture of iron, already alluded to. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Rowland