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What (who) is Interdict - definition
BAN ORDER IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Papal Interdiction; Interdict (Catholic Church); Papal interdict; Interdict (Roman Catholic Church); Interdict (Catholic canon law)
interdict
¦ noun '?nt?d?kt
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 ??nt?'d?kt 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 participle of interdicere 'interpose, forbid by decree'.
interdict
I. v. a.
Forbid, prohibit, inhibit, proscribe.
II. n.
1.
Prohibition, interdiction.
2.
(Eccles.) Ban, suspension of religious privileges.
interdict
(interdicted)
1.
If an armed force interdicts something or someone, they stop them and prevent them from moving. If they interdict a route, they block it or cut it off. (AM FORMAL)
Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments.
= intercept
VERB: V n
• interdiction (interdictions)
...increased drug interdiction efforts by the military and Coast Guard.
N-VAR
2.
An interdict is an official order that something must not be done or used. (FORMAL)
The National Trust has placed an interdict on jet-skis in Dorset, Devon and Cornwall.
= ban
N-COUNT
Wikipedia
Interdict
In Catholic canon law, an interdict () is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in particular rites, or that the rites and services of the church are prohibited in certain territories for a limited or extended time.
Examples of use of Interdict
1. But waiting until North Korea‘s ICBM is launched to interdict it is risky.
2. Israel said that was an attempt to interdict Hezbollah weapons shipments.
3. Lawyer Ismail Ayob and businessman Ross Calder did not oppose the interdict.
4. It also says it needs sophisticated night–fighting equipment to interdict the terrorists.
5. He said Pakistan is also taking all possible measures to interdict cross border infiltration in both directions.