Interdict

What do we mean by interdict?

To prohibit (an action or thing) or forbid (someone) to do something, especially by legal or ecclesiastical order. transitive verb

To cut or destroy (a line of communication) by firepower so as to halt an enemy's advance. transitive verb

To confront and halt the activities, advance, or entry of. transitive verb

An authoritative prohibition, especially by court order. noun

An ecclesiastical censure that bars an individual, members of a given group, or inhabitants of a given district from participation in most sacraments. noun

In law, an incompetent; one judicially declared to be incapable of earing for his person or estate. See interdiction, 2. noun

To declare authoritatively against, as the use or doing of something; debar by forbidding; prohibit peremptorily.

To prohibit from some action-or proceeding; restrain by prohibitory injunction; estop; preclude.

Specifically Eccles., to cut off from communion with a church; debar from ecclesiastical functions or privileges.

Synonyms Prohibit, etc. See forbid.

An official or authoritative prohibition; a prohibitory order or decree. noun

In Roman law, an adjudication, by a solemn ordinance issued by the pretor, in his capacity of governing magistrate, for the purpose of quieting a controversy, usually as to peaceable possession, between private parties. ; noun

In the Roman Catholic Church, an ecclesiastical sentence which forbids the right of Christian burial, the use of the sacraments, and the enjoyment of public worship, or the exercise of ecclesiastical functions. noun

In Scots law, an injunction. See suspension. noun

A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition. noun

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. noun

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. noun

To forbid; to prohibit or debar. transitive verb

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

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.

An injunction.

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