forwarn

1. (transitive) To prohibit; forbid; deny (right, access to, etc.).Examples: "Oh Cousin this wicked Duoena, this Grycta suspects the good Woman who brought the Letter, and has forwarn'd her the House."; "I meet the Workman by Mr. Pemberton's Gate, and forewarn him from making of it; [...]"; "[...] having been caught putting the inside of the master's desk to a use for which the architect had clearly not designed it, to justify himself, with great simplicity averred, that he did not know that the thing had been forewarned."transitive