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
- The interdiction was lifted after protest.
- The interdiction campaigns were also expensive.
- This brought the interdict upon the king's lands.
- The remedy for nuisance is by interdict, or action.
- The interdict was removed in the following February.
- The church imposes an interdict, not excommunication.
- The main philosophy of the drug war is one of interdiction.
- Is all crime sociological, being the product of an interdict
- The campaign then centered on the interdiction of that logistical system.
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