Obs. = FORBIDDEN. Forbid tree (see quot. 1662).

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1593.  Davies, Immort. Soul, Introd. vii.

        Ev’n so, by tasting of that Fruit forbid,
  Where they sought Knowledge, they did Error find;
Ill they desir’d to know, and Ill they did;
  And to give Passion Eyes, made Reason blind.

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1662.  Pepys, Diary, 14 Aug. Many trees there [Forest of Dean] left at a great fall in Edward the Third’s time, by the name of forbid-trees, which at this day, are called vorbid trees.

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