interdict en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈɪntədɪkt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈɪntɚdɪkt/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.
Meanings
- 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.
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(qualifier:Scots law) An injunction.
In May [1995], the court issued an interdict preventing the service withdrawal, pending consultation on the closure to passenger traffic of three short stretches of railway around Glasgow and its hinterland that were only used by the Fort William Sleeper - and for which BR had failed to invoke standard closure procedures.
2021 August 25, David Clough, “The Sleeper experience”, in RAIL, number 938, page 61:The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter. […] Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
Forms
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| interdicts | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (6)
ru интердикт (A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person) · fr interdit (A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person) · pl interdykt (A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person) · de Interdikt (A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person) · nl interdictie (A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person) · ga urghaire (A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person)