Synonyms of the word

prohibition

• n. An act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something.
• n. A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.

action

• n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
• n. A way of motion or functioning.
• n. A fast-paced activity.
• n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
• n. (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano,…
• n. (slang) sexual intercourse.
• n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
• n. (military) Combat.
• n. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
• n. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual…
• n. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem,…
• n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive…
• n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
• n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public…
• interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
• v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
• v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

ban

• v. (transitive, obsolete) To summon; to call out.
• v. (transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to execrate.
• v. (transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
• v. (transitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
• n. prohibition.
• n. A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to…
• n. The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable…
• n. (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
• n. A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid…
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
• n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
• n. A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms…
• n. A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th…

decree

• n. An edict or law.
• n. (law) The judicial decision in a litigated cause rendered by a court of equity.
• n. (law) The determination of a cause in a court of admiralty or court of probate.
• v. To command by a decree.

edict

• n. a proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

fiat

• n. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
• n. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
• n. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
• n. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
• v. (transitive, used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

forbiddance

• n. an official prohibition or edict against something.

inhibition

• n. The act of inhibiting.
• n. (psychology) A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
• n. (chemistry) The process of stopping or retarding a chemical reaction.

law

• n. (uncountable) The body of rules and standards issued by the legislative body, or to be applied by courts…
• n. A particular such rule.
• n. (more generally) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are…
• n. (sciences, strictly) A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word…
• n. (mathematics) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
• n. A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms…
• n. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
• n. (slang, uncountable) The police.
• n. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
• n. An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
• n. (obsolete) a tumulus of stones.
• n. (Scottish and northern dialectal, archaic) a hill.
• interj. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.

order

• n. (uncountable) Arrangement, disposition, sequence.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being well arranged.
• n. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
• n. (countable) A command.
• n. (countable) A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
• n. (countable) A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion…
• n. (countable) An association of knights.
• n. any group of people with common interests.
• n. (countable) A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual,…
• n. (countable, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below class and above family; a taxon…
• n. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row;…
• n. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry;…
• n. (architecture) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon…
• n. (cricket) The sequence in which a side’s batsmen bat; the batting order.
• n. (electronics) a power of polynomial function in an electronic circuit’s block, such as a filter, an amplifier,…
• n. (chemistry) The overall power of the rate law of a chemical reaction, expressed as a polynomial function…
• n. (mathematics) The cardinality, or number of elements in a set or related structure.
• n. (graph theory) The number of vertices in a graph.
• n. (order theory) A partially ordered set.
• n. (order theory) The relation on a partially ordered set that determines that it in fact a partially ordered…
• n. (mathematics) The sum of the exponents on the variables in a monomial, or the highest such among all monomials…
• v. (transitive) To set in some sort of order.
• v. (transitive) To arrange, set in proper order.
• v. (transitive) To issue a command to.
• v. (transitive) To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
• v. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.

period

• adj. Appropriate for a given historical era.
• adj. (of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially…
• interj. (chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
• n. A length of time.
• n. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
• n. (now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• n. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition…
• n. Female menstruation.
• n. A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
• n. Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
• n. (chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.
• n. (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
• n. An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.
• n. (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic…
• n. (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
• n. (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
• n. (geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix:…
• n. (genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• n. (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• n. (mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.

proscription

• n. A prohibition.
• n. (historical) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
• n. The act of proscribing, or its result.
• n. A decree or law that prohibits.

refusal

• n. The act of refusing.
• n. (civil engineering) Depth or point at which well or borehole drilling cannot continue.

rescript

• n. (historical law) A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower…
• n. (canon law) An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential…
• n. A duplicate copy of a legal document.
• n. A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
• v. (transitive) To script again or anew.