FORBID Copy link • FORBIDTo prohibit, vetare, with accusative and infinitive (to forbid expressly, to declare by law, that anything is not to be done): interdicere alicui aliqua re (in the Golden Age never alicui aliquid), or with ne (to forbid by virtue of official authority): alicui praedicere with ne or ut ne (to impress upon anybody not to do anything; it denotes the exhorting adviser, or friend): to forbid anybody to do anything, vetare aliquem aliquid facere: to forbid anybody one’s house, interdicere alicui domo sua (after Suet., Oct., 66); also, aliquem domum ad se non admittere: I am forbidden, vetor: it is forbidden, vetitum est; non licet: the birds forbid it (in the auspices), aves abdicunt: since the physician does not forbid it, I will drink, medico non prohibente, bibam. To hinder, impedire aliquid: impedimento esse alicui rei: impedimentum afferre alicui rei faciendae (general terms): obstare or officere alicui rei alicujus: prohibere [SYN. in HINDER]: non sinere aliquid, or, generally, non sinere aliquid fieri (οὐκ ἐάν τι, not to allow anything, not to let it pass or happen, e.g., the passage over, transitum or transire non sinere): to forbid anybody to do anything, prohibere aliquem aliquid facere or with ne, quominus faciat aliquid; aliquem impedire ab aliqua re or ne, quin, quominus faciat aliquid; non sinere aliquem aliquid facere; aliquem arcere or prohibere aliqua re: to forbid the importation of wine, vinum importari non sinere: to forbid the approach to the shore, aliquem e nave egredi prohibere: nothing forbids our doing it, nihil impedit, quominus hoe faciamus: Heaven forbid, dii meliora; ne id Deus sinat; dii prohibeant, ne etc.