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means not allowed to speak or give witness in a court of justice. (Latin, in, negative fari, to speak; Greek, phēmi or phāmi.)
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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.