Interdict

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Interdicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Interdicting.]
	1.	To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. Charged not to touch the interdicted tree. - Milton.
	2.	(Eccl.) To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same. - Ayliffe.
n.	1.
	1.	A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition. These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure. - Milton.
	2.	(R. C. Ch.) 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.
	3.	(Scots Law) 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.

Noun	1.	interdict - an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
	2.	interdict - a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity Synonyms: interdiction
Verb	1.	interdict - destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
	2.	interdict - command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store" Synonyms: disallow, forbid, prohibit, proscribe, veto

INTERDICT, civil Among the Romans it was an ordinance of the praetor, which forbade or enjoined the parties in a suit to do something particularly specified, until it should be decided definitely who had the right in relation to it. Like an injunction, the interdict was merely personal in its effects and it had also another similarity to it, by being temporary or perpetual. Dig. 43, 1, 1, 3, and 4. See Story, E Jur. 865; Halif. Civ. Law, ch. 6 Vicat, Vocab. h. v.; Hein. Elem. Pand. Ps. 6, Sec. 285. Vide Injunction.

INTERDICT, OR INTERDICTION, eccles. law. An ecclesiastical censure, by which divine services are prohibited either to particular persons or particular places. These tyrannical edicts, issued by ecclesiastical powers, have never been in force in the United States.

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