Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict. 2. (n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

Multi-Version Concordance Prohibition (1 Occurrence) Romans 7:3 This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress. (WEY)