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Definition of 'interdict'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) interdict
any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.

2.  interdict
a punishment by which the faithful, remaining in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, are forbidden certain sacraments and prohibited from participation in certain sacred acts.

3. (v.t.) interdict
to forbid; prohibit.

4.  interdict
to cut off authoritatively from certain ecclesiastical functions and privileges.

5.  interdict
to impede the flow of (troops, supplies, etc.) or hinder the use of (a road, airfield, etc.) by steady ground fire or bombing.

6.  interdict
to impede the shipment of (supplies, contraband, etc.) by military operations or other aggressive measures.

Etymology: (1250–1300; ME enterdit < OF < L interdictum prohibition =inter-inter-+dīcere to speak;)

Definition of 'interdict'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) interdict
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) interdict, interdiction
a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity

3. (verb) interdict
destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication

4. (verb) forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix
command against
"I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"

Definition of 'interdict'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) interdict
to forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations

2. (noun) interdict
to lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual

3. (noun) interdict
a prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition

4. (noun) interdict
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

5. (noun) interdict
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

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