In*hib"it (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Inhibited; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inhibiting.] [L. inhibitus, p. p. of inhibere;
pref. in- in + habere to have, hold. See
Habit.]
1. To check; to hold back; to restrain; to
hinder.
Their motions also are excited or inhibited . .
. by the objects without them.
Bentley.
2. To forbid; to prohibit; to
interdict.
All men were inhibited, by proclamation, at the
dissolution, so much as to mention a Parliament.
Clarendon.
Burial may not be inhibited or denied to any
one.
Ayliffe.