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interdict
noun
    1. An official order forbidding someone to do something.
      Thesaurus: ban, injunction, prohibition, proscription, veto, disallowance, taboo; Antonym: permission.
    2. RC Church.
      A sentence or punishment removing the right to most sacraments (including burial but not communion) from the people of a place or district.
    3. Scots law.
verb
    interdicted, interdicting
    1. To place under an interdict; to forbid or prohibit.
      Thesaurus: forbid, prohibit, enjoin, ban, disallow, outlaw, bar, rule out, veto, prevent; Antonym: permit.
Derivative: interdiction
noun
    Derivative: interdictory
    adj
      Etymology: 13c: from Latin interdictum prohibition.



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