interdict

Meanings

1. 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.
2. An injunction.

1. To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
2. To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
3. To forbid (someone) from doing something.
4. To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).

Etymology

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

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