[syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
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1. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict
intercourse with foreign nations.
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Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. --Milton.
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2. (Eccl.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the
enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an
individual.
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An archbishop may not only excommunicate and
interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may
do the same. --Ayliffe.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
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1. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
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These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict
Defends the touching of these viands pure. --Milton.
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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.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
interdict
n 1: 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: interdict, interdiction]
v 1: destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of
communication
2: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night";
"Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed
our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict,
proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow,
countenance, let, permit]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "interdict":
Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, arrest,
arrestation, ban, bar, bench warrant, capias, caveat, check,
constraint, contraband, control, cooling, cooling down,
cooling off, curb, curtailment, death warrant, debar, deceleration,
denial, deny, disallow, disallowance, embargo, enjoin, exclude,
exclude from, exclusion, fieri facias, forbid, forbiddance,
forbidden fruit, forbidding, habere facias possessionem, hindrance,
index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, inhibit,
inhibition, injunction, interdiction, interdictum, law,
legal restraint, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, mittimus,
monopoly, nisi prius, no-no, notice, notification, outlaw, precept,
preclude, preclusion, prevent, prevention, process, prohibit,
prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscribe, proscription,
protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rationing, refusal,
refuse, rein, reject, rejection, repress, repression, restraint,
restraint of trade, restrictive covenants, retardation,
retrenchment, rule out, ruling out, say no to, search warrant,
self-control, shut out, slowing down, statute, sumptuary laws,
suppress, suppression, taboo, tariff wall, thought control,
warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, writ, zoning,
zoning laws
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
INTERDICT, civil Among the Romans it was an ordinance of the praetor, which
forbade or enjoined the parties in a suit to do something particularly
specified, until it should be decided definitely who had the right in
relation to it. Like an injunction, the interdict was merely personal in its
effects and it had also another similarity to it, by being temporary or
perpetual. Dig. 43, 1, 1, 3, and 4. See Story, E Jur. 865; Halif. Civ. Law,
ch. 6 Vicat, Vocab. h. v.; Hein. Elem. Pand. Ps. 6, Sec. 285. Vide
Injunction.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
INTERDICT, OR INTERDICTION, eccles. law. An ecclesiastical censure, by which
divine services are prohibited either to particular persons or particular
places. These tyrannical edicts, issued by ecclesiastical powers, have never
been in force in the United States.