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forbad

  • a variation of forbade.
    forbade
    verb
    a simple past tense of forbid.
  • past tense form
    of forbid.
    forbid
    verb (used with object)
    to command (a person) not to do something, have something, etc., or not to enter some place.

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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

The French clergy were so engrossed by the pastime that the Synod of Langres, 1404, forbad it as unclerical.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

His Majesty easily imagin'd that the Queen had been surpriz'd; and being justly angry with Bassompierre, forbad him the Court.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

Above all, in Italy, a continuity of lineage, of language, of local names, and in part of civilisation and law, forbad the thought that the great Roman people had ceased to be.

From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

William at the same time forbad the English from going to Rome, and prohibited them acknowledging any other pope than him whom he should approve.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou