Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
adjure | to command solemnly. |
behest | a command, a request. |
bespeak | to commission to be made. |
bid | an offer; (verb) to make an offer to command |
bidden | (PaP.) BID, to express a greeting. |
command | an order; (verb) to direct with authority. |
commandable | able to be commanded. |
commandeer | to compel to perform military service. |
commandingly | (Adv.) COMMANDING. |
commandment | the act or power of commanding. |
coordinance | a joint ordinance. |
countermand | to revoke an order by a contrary order. |
decree | an order by someone in authority; (verb) to order or establish by law or edict. |
decreer | one who decrees. |
dictatrix | a female dictator. |
directive | a general instruction. |
edict | an authoritative order having the force of law. |
edictal | relating to an edict. |
edictally | (Adv.) EDICTAL, relating to an edict. |
enjoin | to command; to order. |
enjoinder | an order. |
enjoiner | one who enjoins. |
enjoinment | direction; command; authoritative admonition. |
fiat | (Lat.) a formal authorization for a proposed arrangement; (verb) to sanction. |
fiaunt | (Spenser) a fiat. |
forbid | to command not to do something. |
forbidal | the act of forbidding. |
forbiddal | the act of forbidding. |
forbiddance | (Obs.) the act of forbidding. |
forbidden | (PaP.) FORBID, to command not to do something. |
forbiddenly | (Shakesp.) in a forbidden manner. |
forbidder | one who forbids. |
forbiddingly | (Adv.) FORBIDDING. |
forwarn | to forbid. |
heast | (Spenser) behest, command. |
heaste | (Spenser) behest, command. |
hecht | (Scots) to call. |
hest | (Arch.) behest, command. |
hete | (Obs.) to promise, command, name. |
hight | (Arch.) to command or call. |
imperious | assuming command; haughty. |
imperiously | (Adv.) IMPERIOUS, assuming command. |
injunct | to prohibit; to restrain by means of an injunction. |
injunction | the act or an instance of enjoining. |
injunctive | relating to an injunction. |
injunctively | (Adv.) INJUNCTIVE, relating to an injunction. |
interdict | to forbid, prohibit. |
interdiction | the act of interdicting. |
interdictory | serving to interdict. |
mandatary | the holder of a mandate. |
mandate | an official instruction; (verb) to issue with a mandate. |
mandator | one who gives a mandate. |
mandatorily | (Adv.) MANDATORY, by mandate. |
mandatory | by mandate (noun) the holder of a mandate |
masterdom | dominion; rule; command. |
masterhood | the state of being a master. |
ministrant | an attendant. |
ordain | to invest with holy authority. |
ordainer | one who ordains. |
order | a command, a requisition; (verb) to give a command or instruction to. |
orderable | that can be ordered. |
orderer | one who orders. |
ordinance | that which is ordained by authority, fate, etc; a regulation. |
prebid | to bid in advance. |
predestine | to decree beforehand. |
preordain | to ordain in advance. |
prescribe | to lay down a rule or direction. |
prescriber | one who prescribes. |
prescript | (Arch.) a thing that is prescribed or laid down; an ordinance. |
prohibit | to forbid by authority. |
prohibition | the act of prohibiting. |
prohibitionary | serving to prohibit. |
prohibitory | serving to prohibit. |
proscribe | to forbid, esp by law. |
proscript | a person who is proscribed. |
rahui | (Maori) a Maori prohibition. |
taboo | (Tongan) a prohibition, interdict; (verb) to forbid as eg unclean. |
tabu | (Tongan) a prohibition, interdict; (verb) to forbid as eg unclean. |
tapu | (Tongan) a prohibition, interdict; (verb) to forbid as eg unclean. |
unbid | not bid or commanded. |
unorder | to cancel an order. |
unprohibited | not prohibited. |
veto | (Lat.) to forbid. |