interdicts
- present tense form of interdict (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Environmental and community groups have sued companies including Shell in recent months, winning temporary interdicts that caused searches to be called off.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022
Nor deem, O king, that cold Suspicion taints Our valiant leader, or his wish prevents; Great is our monarch, and his dread command To our brave captain interdicts the land Till Indian earth he tread.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
The commissary may receive denunciations from these three classes of persons, and send them to the Holy Office, without making any arrest, issuing interdicts, or taking other steps.
Thus chiefs, with family trees which reached backward to the gods, were in a far better position to make good their arbitrary interdicts than mere ordinary mortals, who hardly remembered their grandfathers.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
The Church beheld this evil with grief and indignation, and popes issued rescripts and interdicts.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
