'Interdict' definitions:
Definition of 'interdict'
(from WordNet)
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
noun
A court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity [syn: interdict, interdiction]
verb
Destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
verb
Definition of 'Interdict'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. [1913 Webster]
- Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Eccl.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. [1913 Webster]
- An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Interdict'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition. [1913 Webster]
- These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'interdict'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- ban,
- bar,
- bench warrant,
- capias,
- caveat,
- check,
- constraint,
- contraband,
- control,
- cooling,
- cooling down,
- cooling off,
- curb,
- curtailment,
- death warrant,
- debar,
- deceleration,
- denial,
- deny,
- disallow,
- disallowance,
- Eighteenth Amendment,
- embargo,
- enjoin,
- exclude,
- exclude from,
- exclusion,
- fieri facias,
- forbid,
- forbiddance,
- forbidden fruit,
- forbidding,
- habere facias possessionem,
- hindrance,
- index,
- index expurgatorius,
- index librorum prohibitorum,
- inhibit,
- inhibition,
- injunction,
- interdiction,
- interdictum,
- law,
- legal restraint,
- mandamus,
- mandate,
- mandatory injunction,
- mittimus,
- monopoly,
- nisi prius,
- no-no,
- notice,
- notification,
- outlaw,
- precept,
- preclude,
- preclusion,
- prevent,
- prevention,
- process,
- prohibit,
- prohibition,
- Prohibition Party,
- prohibitory injunction,
- proscribe,
- proscription,
- protection,
- protectionism,
- protective tariff,
- rationing,
- refusal,
- refuse,
- rein,
- reject,
- rejection,
- repress,
- repression,
- restraint,
- restraint of trade,
- restrictive covenants,
- retardation,
- retrenchment,
- rule out,
- ruling out,
- say no to,
- search warrant,
- self-control,
- shut out,
- slowing down,
- statute,
- sumptuary laws,
- suppress,
- suppression,
- taboo,
- tariff wall,
- thought control,
- Volstead Act,
- warrant,
- warrant of arrest,
- warrant of attorney,
- writ,
- zoning,
- zoning laws