Definitions for interdict

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interdict in·ter·dict

Spelling: [noun in-ter-dikt; verb in-ter-dikt]

IPA: /noun ˈɪn tərˌdɪkt; verb ˌɪn tərˈdɪkt/

Interdict is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 256 anagrams from letters in interdict (cdeiinrtt).

Definitions for interdict

noun

1. Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
2. Roman Catholic Church. a punishment by which the faithful, remaining in communion with the church, are forbidden certain sacraments and prohibited from participation in certain sacred acts.
3. Roman Law. a general or special order of the Roman praetor forbidding or commanding an act, especially in cases involving disputed possession.

verb (used with object)

1. to forbid; prohibit.
2. Ecclesiastical. to cut off authoritatively from certain ecclesiastical functions and privileges.
3. to impede by steady bombardment:

Origin of interdict

1250-1300; (noun) Latin interdictum prohibition, noun use of neuter of interdictus past participle of interdīcere to forbid, equivalent to inter- inter- + -dic- (var

Examples for interdict

The Empress laid an interdict on the half of my income and pension.

Now, by the Prophet and that interdict of his, I'll drink no further.'

On thee and on all who lift hand in thy cause, rests the interdict of the Church.

No bishop with his interdict, no Pope with his "thunders from the Vatican."

I was glad to perceive that my interdict of the deathchamber had been respected.

In June the King's commission requested the removal of the interdict.

Have I acted in this in accordance with your wishes—or do you interdict the publication?

Foreign security sector support can and should include efforts to interdict poachers.

I foresee in Livia's mind a dread of the aforesaid "arch," and an interdict.

These notices were rather a protest than an interdict, and were so understood.