How to pronounce“interdict”in English
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Definitions of “interdict”
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.
“The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter. […] Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.”
To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
“An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.”
To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
“Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.”
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