interdict

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.

   Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.

2. 2
   verb

   To forbid (someone) from doing something.

   Do not look so alarmed, Madame; every possible precaution has been taken to prevent infection. I have given the strictest orders to interdict any communication between her attendants and those devoted to your service.

3. 3
   verb

   To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).

   Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

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