Noah Webster
Inhibit
INHIB'IT, verb transitive [Latin inhibeo; in and habeo, to hold, properly to rush or drive.]
1. To restrain; to hinder; to check or repress.
Their motions also are excited or inhibited--by the objects without them.
2. To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
All men were inhibited by proclamation at the dissolution so much as to mention a parliament.