Literary notes about inhibit (AI summary)
In literature, the term inhibit is used to denote the act of restraining or preventing an action, process, or growth. Authors employ it to describe both physical and abstract limitations—for instance, one text discusses the suppression of repetitive behaviors as a fundamental evolutionary process [1], while another warns that certain emotions or impulses may be curtailed to preserve cognitive function [2]. The word often appears in contexts ranging from scientific accounts, where it refers to the reduction of bacterial growth or plant development [3, 4, 5], to legal and political writings that advocate for restrictions on behaviors or communications [6, 7]. Additionally, narratives sometimes illustrate how external forces or internal conflicts inhibit natural tendencies, thereby shaping personality or societal interactions [8, 9].
- In the order of evolution, pain and pleasure arise from certain actions in order to inhibit or stimulate 361 repetition of actions.
— from Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling by Hiram Miner Stanley - So administered, the critical cathartic will not prove a poison and will not inhibit the cognitive function it was meant to purge.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - These checked growth when used in small amounts, but it required 3 cc of the cinnamon and 1 cc of the cloves to inhibit the growth of the mold.
— from Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup by A. W. (Arvill Wayne) Bitting - The wine would cleanse and [Pg 388] at least inhibit bacterial growth.
— from Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - It has been stated that Stannoxyl does not inhibit the growth of staphylococci, but only renders the growth less virulent.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 2 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association) - Calhoun showed that the Constitution permits each State for itself to define, in order to inhibit, incendiary literature.
— from History of the United States, Volume 3 by Elisha Benjamin Andrews - And what shall be done to inhibit the multitudes that frequent those houses where drunkenness is sold and harboured?
— from Areopagitica by John Milton - There are many factors which inhibit sleep that must be removed or at least obviated.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - So they perceive it at the very moment when it is acting upon their wills, to inhibit certain movements or command others.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
