Interdict Definition

ĭntər-dĭkt
interdicted, interdicting, interdicts
verb
interdicted, interdicting, interdicts
To prohibit (an action) or prohibit the use of (a thing); forbid with authority.
Webster's New World
To restrain from doing or using something.
Webster's New World
To impede or hinder (the enemy) or isolate (an area, route, etc.) by firepower or bombing.
Webster's New World
To confront and halt the activities, advance, or entry of.
American Heritage
To exclude (a person, parish, etc.) from certain acts, sacraments, or privileges.
Webster's New World
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noun
interdicts
An official prohibition or restraint.
Webster's New World
An ecclesiastical censure that bars an individual, members of a given group, or inhabitants of a given district from participation in most sacraments.
American Heritage
An interdicting of a person, parish, etc.
Webster's New World

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.

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Other Word Forms of Interdict

Noun

Singular:
interdict
Plural:
interdicts

Origin of Interdict

  • Alteration of Middle English enterditen to place under a church ban from Old French entredit past participle of entredire to forbid from Latin interdīcere interdict- inter- inter- dīcere to say deik- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcere, present active infinitive of interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deikō.

    From Wiktionary

Interdict Sentence Examples

  • From some places the interdict was not removed for twenty-six years.

  • To interdict the importation of the drug altogether, as is done in Japan, was the step advocated by Japanese public opinion.

  • A truce was concluded in 1317, but as the Sicilians helped the north Italian Ghibellines in the attack on Genoa, and Frederick seized some Church revenues for military purposes, the pope (John XXII.) excommunicated him and placed the island under an interdict (1321) which lasted until 1 335.

  • For this act of contumacy the king and kingdom were placed under interdict.

  • He removed the interdict which Innocent had employed against Louis VII.

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