INHIBIT

inhibit. inhibit, forbid.

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inhibit. Inhibit, v.t. to prohibit, hinder, restrain, check

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In‐hib″it (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhibiting.] [[L. inhibitus, p. p. of inhibere; pref. in- in + habere to have, hold. See Habit.]] 1. 1. To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley. 2. 2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament. Clarendon. Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any one. Ayliffe.