interdict
noun
any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
interdicts
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present tense formof interdict (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
The five principal precepts, or rather interdicts, addressed to the Buddhist priests are: 1.
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 Luís de Camões
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 Sir James George Frazer
Both France and England were laid under interdicts on account of the misdoings of Philip Augustus and John; both kings were forced to submission.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
