veto

A prohibition; negative. A word frequently transferred from political to ordinary life.

The cold, miserable, rainy, unseasonable weather yesterday, put a veto on all out-door operations.--N. Y. Paper.

veto
vĕto, ŭi, ĭtum, 1 (old form vŏto: votes, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 56: votitus, id. As. 4, 1, 44; cf. Non. ...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
veto
vetō (old votō), uī, itus, āre VET-, not to suffer, not to permit, to oppose, forbid, prohibit : a...

An Elementary Latin Dictionary
Veto
·noun An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an <<Interdiction>>. II. Veto ·noun T...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Pocket veto
·add. ·- The retention by the President of the United States of a bill unsigned so that it does not ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language