Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Forbid

Forbid (for*bid") , transitive verb

[Old English forbeden, Anglo-Saxon forbeódan; pref. for- + beódan to bid; akin to Dutch verbieden, German verbieten, Icelandic fyrirbjōea, forboea, Swedish forbjuda, Danish forbyde. See Bid, transitive verb]

1.
To command against, or contrary to; to prohibit; to interdict. [Obsolete]
More than I have said... The leisure and enforcement of the time Forbids to dwell upon. — Shakespeare
2.
To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command; to command not to enter.
Have I not forbid her my house? — Shakespeare
3.
To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command; as, an impassable river forbids the approach of the army.
A blaze of glory that forbids the sight. — Dryden
4.
To accurse; to blast. [Obsolete]
He shall live a man forbid. — Shakespeare
5.
To defy; to challenge. [Obsolete] — L. Andrews

Forbid , intransitive verb

To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder.
I did not or forbid. — Milton