- a variation of prohibitive.
prohibitory
Example Sentences
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Dry since it entered the Union in 1889, North Dakota repealed its Prohibitory laws by a close vote.
From Time Magazine Archive
The chief measures were as follows: I. Prohibitory 1.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert
Prince," she would say, with one of her sunny smiles, "do just what you like about the Permissive Prohibitory Bill, and let us have a glass of sparkling Sillery together in the Council Chamber.
From Strange Stories by Allen, Grant
A gold medal was presented that evening to the Hon. Neal Dow, of Maine, the father of the "Prohibitory Law."
From The Life of Phineas T. Barnum by Benton, Joel
Mr. Mendham, in his Literary Policy of the Church of Rome Exhibited, in an Account of her Damnatory Catalogues or Indices, both Prohibitory and Expurgatory, &c., 2nd ed.,
