10 March 2014

interdict

[n. in-ter-dikt; v. in-ter-dikt]

noun

1. Civil Law. any prohibitory act or decree of a court or an administrative officer.
2. Roman Catholic Church . 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, especially in cases involving disputed possession.
verb (used with object)
4. to forbid; prohibit.
5. Ecclesiastical . to cut off authoritatively from certain ecclesiastical functions and privileges.
6. to impede by steady bombardment: Constant air attacks interdicted the enemy’s advance.

Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) < Latin interdictum prohibition, noun use of neuter of interdictus past participle of interdīcere to forbid, equivalent to inter- inter- + -dic- (variant stem of dīcere to speak) + -tus past participle suffix; replacing Middle English enterdit < Old French < Latin, as above; (v.) < Latin interdictus; replacing Middle English enterditen < Old French entredire (past participle entredit ) < Latin, as above

Related forms
in·ter·dic·tor, noun
un·in·ter·dict·ed, adjective
interdiction, noun – an act or instance of interdicting

Anagram

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Today’s aphorism

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

– Karl Marx

On this day

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10 March 1917 – British forces drive Turkish forces out of Baghdad, taking control of the city.

10 March 1964 – birth of Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer, song-writer.

10 March 1940 – birth of Carlos Ray Norris, aka Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist and invincible superhero.