interdict

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English

Etymology

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: in‧ter‧dict

Noun

interdict (plural interdicts)

  1. 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). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
  2. (Scotland, law) An injunction.
    • 2021 August 25, David Clough, “The Sleeper experience”, in RAIL, number 938, page 61:
      In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.

Translations

Verb

interdict (third-person singular simple present interdicts, present participle interdicting, simple past and past participle interdicted)

  1. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict. [from 13th c.]
    • Template:RQ:Ayliffe PJCA
      An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.
  2. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction. [from 16th c.]
  3. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something. [from 16th c.]
    • 1834, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Francesca Carrara, volume 3, page 337:
      Do not look so alarmed, Madame; every possible precaution has been taken to prevent infection. I have given the strictest orders to interdict any communication between her attendants and those devoted to your service.
  4. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). [from 20th c.]
    • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 756:
      Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.

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