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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interdict
noun
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▪ By 1411 Hus had become so influential that Prague was laid under papal interdict.
▪ It is not anticipated that in many cases it would be necessary to seek an interdict.
▪ Lord Penrose, hearing the interdict late at night in his home, turned it down.
▪ Now that the threat of interdict had been made public Henry began to negotiate more seriously.
▪ The interdict prohibited four officials from organising or taking part in pickets of more than six people.
▪ The interdict seeks to prevent the authority proceeding with its hearing in the absence through illness of Mr Stewart.
▪ The company has already obtained an interim interdict at the Court of Session banning the inciting or organising of mass picketing.
▪ Was the interdict extended to apply to trusts as well?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interdict

Interdict \In`ter*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interdicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Interdicting.] [OE. entrediten to forbid communion, L. interdicere, interdictum. See Interdict, n.]

  1. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

    Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.
    --Milton.

  2. (Eccl.) 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.

Interdict

Interdict \In"ter*dict`\, n. [OE. entredit, enterdit, OF. entredit, F. interdit, fr. L. interdictum, fr. interdicere to interpose, prohibit; inter between + dicere to say. See Diction.]

  1. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.

    These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure.
    --Milton.

  2. (R. C. Ch.) 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. (Scots Law) 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interdict

late 13c., from Old French entredit, past participle of entredire "forbid by decree," from Latin interdicere "interpose by speech, prohibit," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + dicere "to speak, to say" (see diction). Related: Interdicted; interdicting.

Wiktionary
interdict

n. 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. vb. 1 (context transitive Roman Catholic English) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict. (from 13th c.) 2 (context transitive English) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction. (from 16th c.) 3 (context transitive English) To forbid (someone) from doing something. (from 16th c.) 4 (context transitive US military English) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). (from 20th c.)

WordNet
interdict
  1. n. 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. a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity [syn: interdiction]

  3. v. destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication

  4. command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" [syn: forbid, prohibit, proscribe, veto, disallow] [ant: permit, permit]

Wikipedia
Interdict

In Catholic canon law, an interdict is an ecclesiastical censure that prohibits certain active Church individuals or groups from participating in certain rites.

Interdict (disambiguation)

The term Interdict may refer to:

Usage examples of "interdict".

As is, the system interdicts any attempt to modernize operations in the bluejack area.

Pope Julius, strong again, turned against Gonfaloniere Soderini, put an interdict on the Republic of Florence for not siding with him, for not providing troops and money when he had been in trouble, for giving refuge to enemy troops, for not crushing the Council at Pisa.

The NATO mission would be to maintain the Atlantic Bridge and continue transoceanic trade, and the obvious Soviet mission would be to interdict this trade.

All Ekhat are xenophobic, but the Interdict is perhaps more so than any other faction.

When a native is under the interdict, certain aliments are denied him for a prescribed period.

Daniel Dabbs took it for a humorous effect and began a roar, which was summarily interdicted.

The less atmospheric heating, the less chance the Interdict Artlnts on Deimos would have of spotting an anomalous heat plume.

And from the moment that the Senate had been unofficially apprised by Nani that the terrible Interdict was already printed and would presently be fulminated, every possible precaution of self-defense had been put in operation throughout the dominions of Venice, with an ingenuity, a foresight, and a celerity which the watching courts of Europe not only viewed with amazement, but accepted as an evidence of the conscious power and justice of the Republic.

Until our own fighters can interdict them short of the battle-line, we must assume the infidels will welcome battle in deep space, where they can make full use of their range and speed advantage over our stronger battle-line.

The Interdict, who find all lower lifeforms repulsive, do not harvest at all.

Interdict does not concern itself with the fate of lower lifeforms, any more than a human on your world would take an interest in the affairs of carrion flies.

The bomb that these men scoffed at was a reality, or almost so, and the likelihood that Germany might be first to launch it, and with rockets that could not be intercepted, was so awful to contemplate that everything possible must be done to interdict it.

Apparently issues were complicated by the fact that Madame Psychosis emerged from puberty as an almost freakishly beautiful young woman, especially in a part of the United States where poor nutrition and indifference to dentition and hygiene made physical beauty an extremely rare and sort of discomfiting condition, one in no way shared by Madame Psychosis's toothless and fireplug-shaped mother, who said not a word as Madame Psychosis's father interdicted everything from brassieres to Pap smears, addressing the nubile Madame Psychosis in progressively puerile baby-talk and continuing to use her childhood diminutive like Pookie or Putti as he attempted to dissuade her from accepting a scholarship to a Boston University whose Film and Film-Cartridge Studies Program was, he apparently maintained, full of quote Nasty Pootem Wooky Barn-Bams, unquote, whatever family-code pejorative this signified.

I will say that I insisted on answering though you argued that the system was interdicted!

Already most routes to Gimelhai had been interdicted by the approaching alien armadas, now patiently clearing mines away from the fringes of Garth system.