interdict

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interdict

▶noun /ˈɪntədɪkt/ 

• 1 Law, chiefly Scottish a court order forbidding an act.

• 2 (in the Roman Catholic Church) a sentence debarring a person or place from ecclesiastical functions and privileges.

▶verb /ˌɪntəˈdɪkt/ chiefly N. Amer.

• 1 prohibit or forbid.

• 2 intercept (a prohibited commodity).

• 3 Military impede (an enemy force), especially by bombing lines of communication or supply.

– derivatives
interdiction noun,
interdictor noun.

– origin ME entredite, from OFr. entredit, from L. interdictum, past part. of interdicere ‘interpose, forbid by decree’.