See Also: forbid(1)(dictionary)
forbid(2)(dictionary)
forbid(dictionary)

wambais (iou) and forbid(2) (iou)


wambais (iou)



wambais noun. M18.
[Old French: cf. GAMBESON, WAMUS.]
Hist. = GAMBESON.

forbid(2) (iou)



forbid verb. , (arch.) -bid; pres. pple & verbal noun -bidding.
[Old English forbeodan = Old Frisian forbiada, Dutch verbieden, Old High German farbiotan (German verbieten), Gothic faurbiudan, from base of FOR-1, BID verb.]
I. verb trans.
Command not to do, have, or use; not allow to exist or happen. Foll. by double obj. of the person commanded (orig. dat.) and the thing prohibited; a person, a thing, that, to do; a person from (now rare), to do; a thing to a person; a thing being done, to be done. OE.
Lytton When strength and courage are forbid me. E. W. Lane He forbade both men and women from entering them. Dickens Will you forbid him the house where I know he is safe? J. Steinbeck A law that requires you to pull your blinds down after sundown, and forbids you to pull them down before. G. Greene The law that forbade the evidence in Divorce cases being published. C. Hill Cromwell's first action on reaching Ireland was to forbid any plunder or pillage.
Exclude, keep back, hinder, restrain; make impossible or undesirable. With constructions as sense 1. OE.
R. B. Sheridan The state I left her in forbids all hope. I. Murdoch Hugo suggested that I should come and live with him, but some instinct of independence forbade this.
Ban, exile, debar. E17-E19.
II. verb intrans.
Not allow it, prevent it. Chiefly in exclams. LME.
Shakespeare 1 Henry VI I may not open; The Cardinal of Winchester forbids.
Phrases: forbid the BANNS. God forbid (that) may it not happen (that).
forbiddal noun (rare) = forbiddance M19.
forbiddance noun the action or an act of forbidding; (a) prohibition: E17.