Verb (used with object), : to debar all those who are not members. ,to debar an action. From Dictionary.com.
When dinner came we found that we were debarred from the dining-room. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
Can't you ever do that sort of thing now? asked the boy, with a pitying look at these hapless creatures debarred from the joys and perils of manly sports. From Wordnik.com. [Rose in Bloom] Reference
Companies found guilty of such practices by the bank typically are "debarred" — meaning they can't bid on new projects for a given number of years, sometimes permanently. From Wordnik.com. [Development Banks Ally to Fight Corruption] Reference
Bank's "debarred" list, which names and shames organisations found to have acted corruptly. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"You know she has been debarred of certain rights?". From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
It gains him an entrance where he would otherwise be debarred. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
Rathmore in Number 30, Nancy was debarred from other groups, too. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
But the sceptic is himself debarred from producing these grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
And to think that now, at the last moment, she should be debarred!. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale : a girl of today] Reference
They were not debarred from becoming members of the great societies. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Not many years since, strangers were debarred from using this passage. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Thus debarred by circumstances from the companionship of other children. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Insufficient declaration Made sufficient and partner 50 debarred from bidding. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
The old familiar face, debarred to the sense of sight, can be recalled by a stray word. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
For us to be debarred forever from existence and consciousness -- would not that suffice?. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
No one is debarred from competing; all may succeed, provided the right methods are followed. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
Is he henceforward to be debarred from interrupting the Member for Donegal by calls to order?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914] Reference
Mr. Andrew answered, more honorable were debarred from place among the Lords of the Articles. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
Humanity, from which, for the want of such a discovery, mankind has been unnaturally debarred. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Should God's children be debarred from these pleasurable associations because the world goes too far in them?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
We are debarred the shelter of the beach; they rise in war, and forbid us to set foot on the brink of their land. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
When debarred from leadership he did not sulk in his tent, but threw his weight in the direction of his principles. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
From the tombs I am debarred, although the authorities are doing nothing whatever there themselves, and the tomb of. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
From all this striving and achieving, and from all the satisfying rewards which come with success, woman is debarred. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Although debarred by Statute from attending school, he educated himself with such limited advantages as he could secure. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
They have a story to represent, just as much as the narrative poems, though they are debarred from the use of narrative. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Law 50 provides that "in case of an insufficient declaration ... the partner is debarred from making any further declaration.". From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
Impossible declaration Made 7 tricks and partner 50 debarred from bidding; or new deal; or previous declaration may be made final. From Wordnik.com. [Auction of To-day] Reference
There lies yet buried here a vast treasure, over which a spirit, debarred from repose, keeps watch, anxiously awaiting deliverance. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
There is, for them, something terrible in the thought of being debarred, even temporarily, from the society of their fellow-beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Although debarred by law from attending school he acquired a good education and further improved his mind by observation and travel. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
Confederates proclaimed themselves aliens, and thereby debarred themselves of all right to claim protection under the Constitution of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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