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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

In/hi-bĭt'ion, n.

noun

(-bĭsh'un), n. [Lat. inhibitio, Fr. inhibition, Pr. inhibitio, Sp. inhibicion, It. inibizione.]

  1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint.
  2. Prohibition; embargo. Gov. of the Tongue.
  3. (Law.) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before him; commonly, a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell.