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interdict
[ noun in-ter-dikt; verb in-ter-dikt ]
noun
- Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
- Roman Catholic Church. a punishment by which the faithful, remaining in communion with the church, are forbidden certain sacraments and prohibited from participation in certain sacred acts.
- Roman Law. a general or special order of the Roman praetor forbidding or commanding an act, especially in cases involving disputed possession.
interdict
noun
- RC Church the exclusion of a person or all persons in a particular place from certain sacraments and other benefits, although not from communion
- civil law any order made by a court or official prohibiting an act
- Scots law an order having the effect of an injunction
- Roman history
- an order of a praetor commanding or forbidding an act
- the procedure by which this order was sought
verb
- to place under legal or ecclesiastical sanction; prohibit; forbid
- military to destroy (an enemy's lines of communication) by firepower
Derived Forms
- ˌinterˈdictor, noun
- ˌinterˈdictive, adjective
- ˌinterˈdictively, adverb
Other Words From
- inter·dictor noun
- unin·ter·dicted adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of interdict1
Word History and Origins
Origin of interdict1
Example Sentences
Foreign security sector support can and should include efforts to interdict poachers.
Excommunications were again hurled at Bruce and his bishops, and Scotland was laid under ecclesiastical interdict.
The Interdict included you with Mordred; it is not to be removed while you remain alive.
Mordred attacked; the Bishop of Canterbury dropped down on him with the Interdict.
We imagined we had educated it out of them; they thought so, too; the Interdict woke them up like a thunderclap!
Is reason so largely developed in the great mass of men that the priests should interdict its use as dangerous?
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