Word Meanings - FORSPEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton.

Related words: (words related to FORSPEAK)

• BEWITCHING
  Having power to bewitch or fascinate; enchanting; captivating; charming. -- Be*witch"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*witch"ing*ness, n.
• FORBIDDANCE
  The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
• BEWITCHERY
  The power of bewitching or fascinating; bewitchment; charm; fascination. There is a certain bewitchery or fascination in words. South.
• FORBIDDENLY
  In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak.
• PROHIBITER
  One who prohibits or forbids; a forbidder; an interdicter.
• PROHIBITORY
  Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. See under Index.
• PROHIBITIVE
  That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
• PROHIBITION
  1. The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. The law of God, in the ten commandments, consists mostly of prohibitions. Tillotson. 2. Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors
• FORBIDDING
  Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air. Syn. -- Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive;
• BEWITCHEDNESS
  The state of being bewitched. Gauden.
• BEWITCHMENT
  1. The act of bewitching, or the state of being bewitched. Tylor. 2. The power of bewitching or charming. Shak.
• BEWITCH
  1. To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect by witchcraft or sorcery. See how I am bewitched; behold, mine arm Is like a blasted sapling withered up. Shak. 2. To charm; to fascinate; to please to such a degree as to take
• BEWITCHER
  One who bewitches.
• FORBIDDEN
  Prohibited; interdicted. I kniw no spells, use no forbidden arts. Milton. Forbidden fruit. Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. A small variety of shaddock . The name is
• PROHIBITIONIST
  1. One who favors prohibitory duties on foreign goods in commerce; a protectionist. 2. One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.
• FORBIDDER
  One who forbids. Milton.
• PROHIBIT
  1. To forbid by authority; to interdict; as, God prohibited Adam from eating of the fruit of a certain tree; we prohibit a person from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits
• FORBID
  for- + beódan to bid; akin to D. verbieden, G. verbieten, Icel., 1. To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict. More than I have said . . . The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. Shak. 2. To deny, exclude
• UNBEWITCH
  To free from a spell; to disenchant. South.