noun, verb ·Common ·High school level
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"The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter. […] Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted."
"An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same."
"Charged not to touch the interdicted tree."
"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."
"Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses."
"So strong was the power of myth and church, that no one had dared to brave the interdict and cross the sacred gates of ascension in over forty generations."
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.
Common synonyms include: interdiction, arrest, arrestation, ban, ban, bar.
So strong was the power of myth and church, that no one had dared to brave the interdict and cross the sacred gates of ascension in over forty generations.
Pronounced /ˈɪntɚdɪkt/.
From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.