forbade
verb
a simple past tense of forbid.
Example Sentences
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The Meyer decision, for example, overturned a Nebraska law which forbad teaching non-English languages in public and private schools.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2022
For this cause the King was displeased with Thurstine, and forbad him to returne into the Realme.
From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward
The council of the Bernese government resolved to recall the refractory clergy of the Jura, took their names off the civil register and forbad them to exercise any clerical functions.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Prudence forbad him to approve, we are told, what kindness would not suffer him to prohibit.
From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Hester Chapone
Among uninhabitable plains, the traveller is struck by the ruins of innumerable castles and villages, monuments of a time when pestilence was either unfelt, or had at least not forbad the residence of mankind.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
