interdict
noun
any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
had interdicted
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past perfectof interdict.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Unfortunately, his professional visits were become necessary to Miss Mortimer; and with me he had long before started a topic, amply compensating that which I had interdicted.
From Discipline by Mary Brunton
What could impel him to break through the strict rule which had interdicted all dangerous contact with himself?
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
He could not call to see her, for she had interdicted that.
From Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
The trust was shown by his respectful silence on that one point of reserve on which she had interdicted conversation.
From Mary Barton by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
From the beginning wise and effective license laws had interdicted all dram-shops; even the taverner might sell spirits only to his transient guests, not to the people of the town.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
