Bible Dictionaries
Prohibition

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

(2):

(n.) Specifically, the forbidding by law of the sale of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Prohibition'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/prohibition.html. 1828.