[
US
/ˈɪntɝˌdɪkt/
]
NOUN
- a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity
- an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
VERB
- destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication
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command against
I forbid you to call me late at night
Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
Dad nixed our plans
How To Use interdict In A Sentence
- a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, with their deawie freshnesse, reseruing and holding their colours without interdict of time. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
- Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments.
- Innocent's interdict forbade all ceremonies save baptism of infants and confessions for the dying: it operated from 1208 and John was excommunicated in 1209.
- The classic example was the Allied air attacks on the French rail network in 1944 to interdict German troop movements that might interfere with the Normandy landings.
- Things being what they are, border interdiction is going to remain where the action is. Matthew Yglesias » The Conservative Immigration Split
- A recent example of a nonbinding agreement is the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) - a Bush administration initiative to intercept shipments of WMD-related materials (known as interdiction). Emma Belcher: The Ties That Bind Are Not Always Best
- Since John's response to the interdict was to confiscate the estates of the Church it even helped to ease his financial problem.
- This is the most critical work of counter-terrorism: gathering intelligence about the enemy that enables you to detect and interdict him before he can put his plan into action.
- In the end, they hijacked commercial aircrafts without detection or interdiction.
- Thus, by early 1969 a patrolled waterway interdiction barrier extended almost uninterrupted from Tay Ninh northwest of Saigon to the Gulf of Siam. Archive 2004-08-01
