interdict

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To prohibit or place under an ecclesiastical or legal sanction.
2. v. To forbid or debar, especially authoritatively. See Synonyms at forbid.
3. v. To cut or destroy (a line of communication) by firepower so as to halt an enemy's advance.
4. v. To confront and halt the activities, advance, or entry of: "the role of the FBI in interdicting spies attempting to pass US secrets to the Soviet Union” ( Christian Science Monitor).
5. n. Law A prohibition by court order.
6. n. Roman Catholic Church An ecclesiastical censure that excludes a person or district from participation in most sacraments and from Christian burial.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To declare authoritatively against, as the use or doing of something; debar by forbidding; prohibit peremptorily.
2. To prohibit from some action-or proceeding; restrain by prohibitory injunction; estop; preclude.
3. Specifically Eccles., to cut off from communion with a church; debar from ecclesiastical functions or privileges.
4. Synonyms Prohibit, etc. See forbid.
5. n. An official or authoritative prohibition; a prohibitory order or decree.
6. n. 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. ; More specifically— in earlier times, a prohibition or injunction incidental or introductory to an action, forbidding interference with possession until the right should have been determined
7. n. 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. Interdicts may be general, as applied to a country or city, or particular, as applied to a church or other locality; they may be local, as applied to places, personal, as applied to a person or some class of persons, or mixed, as directed against both places and persons. General and local interdicts have rarely been pronounced since the middle ages.
8. n. In Scots law, an injunction. See suspension.
9. n. In law, an incompetent; one judicially declared to be incapable of earing for his person or estate. See interdiction, 2.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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). Exteme unction/Anointing of the sick are excepted.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To forbid; to prohibit or debar.
2. v. (Eccl.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.
3. n. A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.
4. n. (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.
5. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
2. n. a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
3. v. command against
4. n. an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district