v. Now rare. Also 6 cohybyte, 6–8 cohibite. [f. L. cohibit- ppl. stem of cohibēre to restrain, f. co(m)- together + habēre to hold: cf. adhibit, exhibit, etc.] trans. To restrain, check; to restrict.
1544. Supplic. Hen. VIII., in Four Supplic., 25. Although synne may be for a tyme cohybyted and restrayned.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts (1673), 506. A Lambs runnet … powred into water, doth speedily cohibit the bleeding of the nose.
1649. Evelyn, Liberty & Servitude, ii. Misc. (1805), 12. Cohibiting themselves within those bounds which God hath prescribed.
a. 1734. North, Lives, I. 317. It was scarce possible to cohibit people’s talk.
1882. Syd. Soc. Lex., Cohibiting medium, a substance which prevents the passage of electricity from one body to another.
