Interdict

['ɪntədɪkt] or ['ɪntɚdɪkt]

Definition

(noun.) a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity.

(noun.) an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district.

(verb.) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication.

Typist: Yvette--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

(n.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.

(n.) A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Forbid, prohibit, inhibit.

n. Prohibition, interdiction.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Prohibit, restrain, estop, disallow, debar, proscribe, forbid

ANT:Concede, indulge, grant, airflow

Typist: Martha

Definition

v.t. to. prohibit: to forbid: to forbid communion.—n. (in′tėr-dikt) prohibition: a prohibitory decree: a prohibition of the Pope restraining the clergy from performing divine service.—n. Interdic′tion.—adjs. Interdic′tive Interdic′tory containing interdiction: prohibitory.

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