— interdictor , n.
n. /in"teuhr dikt'/ ; v. /in'teuhr dikt"/ , n.
1. Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
2. Rom. Cath. Ch. a punishment by which the faithful, remaining in communion with the church, are forbidden certain sacraments and prohibited from participation in certain sacred acts.
3. Roman Law. a general or special order of the Roman praetor forbidding or commanding an act, esp. in cases involving disputed possession.
v.t.
4. to forbid; prohibit.
5. Eccles. to cut off authoritatively from certain ecclesiastical functions and privileges.
6. to impede by steady bombardment: Constant air attacks interdicted the enemy's advance.
[ 1250-1300; (n.) interdictum prohibition, n. use of neut. of interdictus ptp. of interdicere to forbid, equiv. to inter- INTER- + -dic- (var. s. of dicere to speak) + -tus ptp. suffix; r. ME enterdit interdictus; r. ME enterditen entredire (ptp. entredit ) ]