prohibitory

Historical Examples

• We seldom hear the word, because there is a prohibitory proverb, "Never say die."

  The Devil's Dictionary

  Ambrose Bierce

• Do they make no appeal for immediate, energetic and prohibitory legislation?

  Cleveland Past and Present

  Maurice Joblin

• Trains are slow, and rates often so high as to be prohibitory.

  The Railroad Question

  William Larrabee

• But this is the restrictive or prohibitory system in its simplest form.

  Sophisms of the Protectionists

  Frederic Bastiat

• It is conceded on all hands that the Prohibitory law is also beaten.

  The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Two

  Abraham Lincoln