forbidden
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English
Etymology
Past participle of the verb forbid.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈbɪdn̩/
Audio (UK): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /fɚˈbɪdn̩/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪdən
Adjective
forbidden (comparative more forbidden, superlative most forbidden)
- Not allowed; specifically disallowed.
- Synonyms: prohibited, verboten, proscribed
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, .”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:
- Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
- 1999, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Figments of Reality: The Evolution of the Curious Mind, page 276:
- This kind of immediate control structure we take to be characteristic of the tribe, and it leads to a rather rigid type of system in which 'every action not mandatory is forbidden'.
Derived terms
Translations
not allowed
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See also
Verb
forbidden
- past participle of forbid