N. prohibition,
inhibition,
veto, disallowance,
interdict,
interdiction, injunction,
estoppel,
embargo,
ban,
taboo,
proscription, index expurgatorius,
restriction,
hindrance, forbidden fruit, maine law
V. prohibit,
inhibit,
forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow,
enjoin,
ban, outlaw,
taboo,
proscribe,
estop, bar,
debar,
forefend, keep in, keep within bounds, restrain,
cohibit,
withhold, limit,
circumscribe, clip the wings of, restrict,
interdict,
taboo, put under an interdiction, place under an interdiction, put under the ban, place under the ban,
proscribe,
exclude, shut out, shut the door, bolt the door, show the door, warn off, dash the cup from one's lips, forbid the banns
Adj. prohibitive,
prohibitory,
proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive,
forbidding, prohibited, not permitted,
unlicensed,
contraband,
impermissible, under the ban of,
illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale
Adv. on no account
Int. forbid it heaven,
&c. (deprecation) 766, hands off, keep off, hold, stop,
desist, cease and desist,
avast, phr, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, "go ahead; make my day "
N. seclusion,
privacy, retirement,
reclusion,
recess,
snugness,
delitescence,
rustication, rus in urbe,
solitude,
solitariness,
isolation,
loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile,
aloofness, cell,
hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum,
depopulation,
desertion,
desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, old sarum,
exclusion,
excommunication,
banishment, exile,
ostracism,
proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut,
inhospitality,
inhospitableness,
dissociability,
domesticity, darby and joan,
recluse,
hermit,
eremite,
cenobite,
anchoret,
anchorite, simon stylites,
troglodyte, timon of athens,
santon,
solitaire,
ruralist, disciple of zimmermann, closet cynic,
diogenes, outcast,
pariah,
castaway,
pilgarlic,
wastrel,
foundling, wilding
V. be secluded, live secluded, keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the background, stand in the background, keep snug, shut oneself up, deny oneself, seclude oneself creep into a corner,
rusticate, aller planter ses choux, retire, retire from the world, take the veil,
abandon, sport one's oak*, cut, cut dead, refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge, look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon,
repel,
blackball,
excommunicate,
exclude, exile,
expatriate,
banish, outlaw,
maroon,
ostracize,
proscribe, cut off from, send to coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round,
depopulate, dispeople, unpeople
Adj. secluded,
sequestered, retired,
delitescent, private,
bye, out of the world, out of the way, "the world forgetting by the world forgot",
snug, domestic, stay-at-home,
unsociable, unsocial, dissocial,
inhospitable,
cynical, inconversable|, unclubbable, sauvage,
troglodytic, solitary,
lonely,
lonesome, isolated, single,
estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless,
lorn,
forlorn,
desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited,
unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself,
derelict, outcast, banished
Phr. noli me tangere, "among them but not of them", "and homeless near a thousand homes i stood", far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, "makes a solitude and calls it peace", magna civitas magna solitudo, "never less alone than when alone", "o sacred solitude! divine retreat!"
N. malediction,
malison,
curse,
imprecation,
denunciation,
execration,
anathema,
ban,
proscription,
excommunication,
commination, thunders of the vatican,
fulmination,
maranatha,
aspersion,
disparagement,
vilification,
vituperation,
abuse, foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language,
billingsgate,
sauce, evil speaking,
cursing, profane swearing, oath, foul invective,
ribaldry, rude reproach,
scurrility,
threat, more bark than bite,
invective V. curse,
accurse,
imprecate,
damn, swear at, curse with bell book and candle, invoke curses on the head of, call down curses on the head of, devote to destruction,
execrate,
beshrew,
scold,
anathematize, bold up to execration,
denounce,
proscribe,
excommunicate,
fulminate, thunder against,
threaten, curse and swear,
swear, swear like a trooper, fall a cursing, rap out an oath,
damn Int. woe to,
beshrew, ruat coelum, ill betide, woe betide, confusion seize,
damn, damn it, damn you, damn you to hell, go to hell, go to blazes,
confound, blast,
curse, devil take,
hang, out with, a plague upon, out upon,
aroynt, honi soit, parbleu, phr, delenda est carthago
N. condemnation, conviction, judgment, penalty, # sentence,
proscription,
damnation, death warrant,
attainder,
attainture,
attaintment V. condemn,
convict, cast, bring home to, find guilty,
damn,
doom, sign the death warrant, sentence, pass sentence on,
attaint,
confiscate,
proscribe,
sequestrate, nonsuit,
disapprove,
accuse, stand condemned
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, "unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved"
