In-hĭb'it, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. INHIBITED; p. pr. & vb. n. INHIBITING.] [Lat. inhibere, inhibitum, from prefix in, not, and habere, to have; Pr., Sp., & Pg. inhibir, It. inibire, Fr. inhiber.]
Sense 1. To check; to repress; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
Their motions also are excited or inhibited . . . by the objects without them. Bentley.
Sense 2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
All men were inhibited by proclamation at the dissolution so much as to mention a Parliament. Clarendon.