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Definition of Interdict
1. Noun. An ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district.
2. Verb. Destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication.
3. Noun. A court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity.
Generic synonyms: Court Order, Ban, Prohibition, Proscription
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
4. Verb. Command against. "Sam and Sue interdict the movie "; "Dad nixed our plans"
Generic synonyms: Command, Require
Specialized synonyms: Ban, Bar, Debar, Exclude, Enjoin, Criminalise, Criminalize, Illegalise, Illegalize, Outlaw
Antonyms: Allow, Permit
Derivative terms: Forbiddance, Forbiddance, Forbidding, Interdiction, Prohibition, Proscription, Proscription, Veto
Definition of Interdict
1. v. t. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.
2. n. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
Definition of Interdict
1. Noun. A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Exteme unction/Anointing of the sick are excepted. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive Roman Catholic) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict. (defdate from 13th c.) ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹
5. Verb. (transitive US military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). (defdate from 20th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Interdict
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Interdict
1. 1. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. "Charged not to touch the interdicted tree." (Milton) 2. To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. "An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same." (Ayliffe) Origin: OE. Entrediten to forbid communion, L. Interdicere, interdictum. See Interdict. 1. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition. "These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure." (Milton) 2. A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church. 3. An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America. Origin: OE. Entredit, enterdit, OF. Entredit, F. Interdit, fr. L. Interdictum, fr. Interdicere to interpose, prohibit; inter between + dicere to say. See Diction. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interdict
Literary usage of Interdict
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"And the general local interdict suppressing all the Divine offices in a town will
evidently ... (2) The particular local interdict has the same effects, ..."
2. Roman Private Law in the Times of Cicero and of the Antonines by Henry John Roby (1902)
"A projection from my house is liable to this interdict from anyone who possesses
the ground ... On such use of this interdict see also D. viii 5 fr 8 § 5, ..."
3. Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to by Edward Potts Cheyney (1922)
"It is difficult now to realize how deeply the life of the people was affected by
the imposition of an interdict, but some idea ..."
4. A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life by Frederic Austin Ogg (1908)
"As a rule the interdict undertook to deprive the inhabitants of a specified ...
The interdict was first employed by the clergy of north France in the tenth ..."
5. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1905)
"He ordered the immediate confiscation of the property of all the clergy who should
obey the interdict. The struggle which follows exhibits, as nothing else ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"139), where that writer treats of the interdict. The words of Gaius, which form
the groundwork of the following remarks of Savigny, are: 'Certis ex ..."
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