Hypertext Webster Gateway: "interdicted"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Interdict \In`ter*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Interdicted}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Interdicting}.] [OE. entrediten to forbid
communion, L. interdicere, interdictum. See {Interdict}, n.]
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.


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