Definition for IN-HIB'IT

IN-HIB'IT, v.i. [Ir. inhiber; L. inhibeo; in and habeo, to hold, properly to rush or drive.]

  1. To restrain; to hinder; to check or repress. Their motions also are excited or inhibited – by the objects without them. Bentley.
  2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict. All men were inhibited by proclamation at the Dissolution so much as to mention a parliament. Clarendon.

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