• (GA) IPA: /ˈɪntɚdɪkt/, /ɪntɚˈdɪkt/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈɪntədɪkt/, /ɪntəˈdɪkt/

interdict (plural interdicts)

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. (Scotland, legal) An injunction.

• French: interdit
• German: Interdikt
• Russian: интердикт

interdict (interdicts, present participle interdicting; past and past participle interdicted)

1. (transitive, Roman Catholic) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict. [from 13th c.]

   • An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same.

2. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction. [from 16th c.]
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.

3. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). [from 20th c.]
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 756:

     Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.

• interdiction
• interdictive
• interdictory
• interdictively
• interdictor

• French: interdire
• Russian: сдерживать