interdict
IPA: ˈɪntɝdɪkt
noun
- 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.
- (Scotland, law) An injunction.
verb
- (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
- (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
- (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something.
- (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
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Examples of "interdict" in Sentences
- It will suffice to recall the interdict imposed in 1200 on the Kingdom of
- These at last obtained an interdict from the usurper Smerdis the Magian (called Artaxerxes in Ezr
- The Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade (IFPYB) called the interdict "the greatest assault on freedom since 1994".
- The particular personal interdict, which is a real censure, affects individuals much in the same way as excommunication.
- One should also abolish certain punishments inflicted by the canon law, especially the interdict, which is doubtless the invention of the evil one.
- They're pushing further and further out, trying to what they call interdict communications John supply lines leading to and from Kandahar that could be used by the Taliban.
- This interdict, which is borrowed, except for a few minor modifications, from c. viii, "De privilegiis", in VI of Boniface VIII, is therefore reserved to the competent prelate.
- He said the interdict was a continuation of Nextcom's successful legal challenge against Satra's first recommendation in April, and it was hoped that the regulatory body's final decision would be overturned.
- In 'Uti possidetis' the party in possession at the issue of the interdict was the winner, provided he had not obtained that possession from his adversary by force, or clandestinely, or by permission; whether he had obtained it from some one else in any of these modes was immaterial.
- Some think that the term interdict is properly applied only to orders of abstention, because it is derived from the verb 'interdicere,' meaning to denounce or forbid, and that orders of restitution or production are properly termed decrees; but in practice they are all called interdicts, because they are given 'inter duos,' between two parties.
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