forbidden, ppl. a.
(fəˈbɪd(ə)n)
[pa. pple. of forbid v.]
a. In senses of the vb.
c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 35 Þe forbodene appel. a 1300 Cursor M. 19861 (Cott.) Forboden beistes war [sc. þai] in lede. c 1465 Eng. Chron. (Camden 1856) 57 That the said maister Thomas sholde say massis in forboden..placez. 1513 Douglas æneis i. ix. 128 Quhen scho to Troy forbodyn hymeneus socht. 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 26 Before we enter his forbidden gates. 1619 Brent tr. Sarpi's Counc. Trent iii. (1629) 293 To eate..forbidden meates, in Lent. 1782 Cowper Retirem. 216 His hours of leisure..employs In drawing pictures of forbidden joys. a 1839 Praed Poems (1864) II. 109, I entered that forbidden room. |
b. spec. forbidden degrees, certain degrees of relationship within which persons are forbidden to marry; forbidden fruit, (a) that forbidden to Adam (Gen. ii. 17), also fig.; (b) hence, a name given to several varieties of Citrus, esp. C. decumana; forbidden line, a spectral line produced by a forbidden transition; † forbidden time (Sc. Law), the close time for fish; forbidden transition, a transition between two states of a quantum-mechanical system (as a molecule, atom, or nucleus) that does not conform to some selection rules, esp. those for electric dipole radiation from an unperturbed system.
1609 Skene Quon. Attach. lxxxvii. heading, Of forbiddin Tyme in Fishing. 1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iii. §5 He required from him the observance of that positive command of not eating of the forbidden fruit. 1663 Flagellum or O. Cromwell (ed. 2) 5 The stealing and tasting of the forbidden fruit of Soveraignty. 1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. Ind. (1834) 212 Some sweet oranges, others bitter ones, others again forbidden fruit. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pomelloes, a name under which forbidden fruit is sometimes sold in this country by fruiterers. 1866 Treas. Bot., Forbidden Fruit Citrus Paradisi.—(of London) a variety of the shaddock C. decumana. 1872 Gloss. Eccl. Terms (ed. Shipley), Forbidden Degrees. 1923 H. L. Brose tr. Sommerfeld's Atomic Struct. & Spectral Lines vi. 366 The forbidden lines..belong to transitions in which n i jumps by two or..by three units. Ibid. 367 In the combinations (spi) in the H.S. or the II N.S. no forbidden transitions occur. 1939 J. W. T. Spinks tr. Herzberg's Molecular Spectra & Molecular Struct. I. v. 305 Another forbidden transition, also involving magnetic dipole radiation, has been observed for oxygen. 1957 Encycl. Brit. II. 591/1 The two strong green lines in the spectra of the gaseous nebulae prove to be forbidden lines of doubly ionized oxygen. |
Hence forˈbiddenly adv.; forˈbiddenness.
1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 417 He thinkes..that you haue toucht his Queene Forbiddenly. 1647 Boyle Disc. agst. Swearing vii. Wks. 1772 VI. 10 Since the sinfulness of swearing does consist, not in the diversity of our oaths, but in their forbiddenness. 1744 Birch Life Boyle 41 Nothing but the forbiddenness of self-dispatch hindered his acting it. |