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Malum Prohibʹitum (Latin)

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What is wrong merely because it is forbidden, as eating a particular fruit was wrong in Adam and Eve, because they were commanded not to do so. Doing secular work on the Sabbath.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Malmesbury Monastery
Malmsey Wine
Malt
Malt … Meal
Maltese Cross
Malthusian (A)
Malthusian Doctrine
Malum
Malum in Se (Latin)
Malum Prohibitum (Latin)
Malvolio
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Mamelon
Mamelukes
Mamma, Mother
Mammet
Mammon
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