interdict

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}]
    

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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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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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. 
    

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. 
    

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