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  1. transitive verb To prohibit or place under an ecclesiastical or legal sanction.
  2. transitive verb To forbid or debar, especially authoritatively. See Synonyms at forbid.
  3. transitive verb To cut or destroy (a line of communication) by firepower so as to halt an enemy's advance.
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  • When informed that the interdict was to stand, he declared in a pet that he would settle in France and take out letters of naturalisation I am not English. —  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
  • A priest under interdict, a seaman-headsman-warrior, a wild but aristocratic Nomad, a disgraced monk, and a Cardinal who was not more than a deacon. —  F ;SF; - vol 093 issue 04-05 - October-November 1997
  • When this interdict was in action, civil suits between burghers could be adjudged by the municipal magistrates, but no criminals could be arrested or tried. —  Charles the Bold
  • According to Vivienne Lalu, SWEAT advocacy officer, the application for the interdict is the result of many failed attempts at improving sex workers 'situation. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • These notices were rather a protest than an interdict, and were so understood FOOTNOTES Footnote 161: Eden's Discourse on Banishment. —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I
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  1. Alteration of Middle English enterditen, to place under a church ban, from Old French entredit, past participle of entredire, to forbid, from Latin interdīcere, interdict- : inter-, inter- + dīcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. In Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredit (past participle of entredire); from Latin interdictus, past participle of interdicere (later Italian interdicere, interdire = Spanish entredicer, interdecir = Portuguese entredizer, interdizer = Old French entredire, French interdire), interpose by speaking, contradict, forbid, from inter, between, + dicere, speak, say: see diction.
  2. In Middle English enterdit, from Old French entredit, French interdit = Provencal entredich = Spanish entredicho, interdicto = Portuguese interdicto = Italian interdetto; from Latin interdictum, a prohibition, neuter of interdictus, past participle of interdicere, forbid, prohibit: see interdict, v.
 

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