What is to prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer. Which God defend that I should wring from him. Shak called?
defend — To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Chaucer. Which God defend that I should wring from him. Shak. (Webster's 1913.)
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