interdict

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1. interdict - Noun

2. interdict - Verb

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To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations.

To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.

A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition.

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.

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.

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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. Giacomo Casanova

I forbid you to call me late at night Source: Internet

Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store Source: Internet

Dad nixed our plans Source: Internet

For refusing to desist from the very hostilities that he himself had instigated (and for being a dangerous rival to Della Rovere dynastic ambitions in the Marche ), Sixtus placed Venice under interdict in 1483. Source: Internet

He followed up with a bull that would excommunicate the king of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, a French delegation forcibly brought the pope to France. Source: Internet

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