INHIB'IT, verb transitive [Latin 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. 2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict. All men were inhibited by proclamation at the dissolution so much as to mention a parliament.
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