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. Inhibition
(In`hi*bi"tion) n. [L. inhibitio: cf. F. inhibition.]
1. The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
2. (Physiol.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an
organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the
pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
3. (Law) A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause
before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal. Cowell.
Inhibitor
(In*hib"i*tor) n. [NL.] That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
Inhibitory
(In*hib"i*to*ry) a. [LL. inhibitorius: cf. F. inhibitoire.] Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting
in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory
center.
I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory.
Lamb. Inhibitory nerves (Physiol.), those nerves which modify, inhibit, or suppress a motor or secretory act
already in progress.
Inhibitory-motor
(In*hib"i*to*ry-mo"tor) a. (Physiol.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which
govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. McKendrick.
Inhive
(In*hive") v. t. To place in a hive; to hive.
Inhold
(In*hold") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inheld ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inholding.] To have inherent; to contain
in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Inholder
(In*hold"er), n. An inhabitant. [Obs.] Spenser.
Inhoop
(In*hoop") v. t. To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop. [R.] Shak.
Inhospitable
(In*hos"pi*ta*ble) a. [Pref. in- not + hospitable: cf. L. inhospitalis.]
1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or
people.
Have you no touch of pity, that the poor
Stand starved at your inhospitable door?
Cowper. 2. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." Blair.
— In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness, n. — In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.
Inhospitality
(In*hos`pi*tal"i*ty) n. [L. inhospitalitas: cf. F. inhospitalité. See In- not, and Hospitality.]
The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.
