interdict
- noun
- /ˈɪntərdɪkt/
- Formal
:
medida cautelar
- Following the court's interdict, the company was forbidden to operate until further notice.
Examples
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I am seriously thinking of obtaining a court interdict to stop him from calling or coming to see me!
Blog text (19) -
The environmental group sought an interdict against the proposed construction project.
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Do you impose an interdict?
Blog text (30) -
You violated the Interdict, and they found out.
Fiction book (1999) -
"The Interdict bans the introduction of technology, not culture."
Fiction book (1999) -
That would be an indisputable violation of the Interdict.
Fiction book (1999) -
And in our time, there are no interdicts or inquisitions.
Academic text (2005) -
From what she and Edge had learned through the Vein's networks, Kendra knew that ways around the interdict existed.
Fiction book (2001) -
"It's a golden opportunity," he went on, "an addition to their scholarship, sure to make them overlook any inadvertent transgressions of the Interdict."
Fiction book (1999) -
The judge issued an interdict to prevent the defendant from selling the property.
Synonyms
78
8.0
An order from a court that stops someone from doing something
48
4.4
An official rule that stops people from doing something
12
8.9
An official order by a court or authority that stops someone from doing something
3
8.8
An official rule that bans something or someone, usually by law
1
8.1
An official order that stops a person or group from doing certain things
How Prohibitive
- Formal
- Formal
78
8.0
- Formal
484
1.4
340
3.0
∞
1.0
126
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
interdict = inter + dict
Although segmentable into inter- + -dict (Latin combining forms), the modern meaning 'a legal prohibition' is not derivable from 'between' + 'say' and must be learned as a lexical borrowing.
Etymology
Interdict comes from the Latin parts inter- 'between' and dicere 'to say', and the root dict appears in familiar words like dictate and dictionary. So an interdict in law is a formal order that 'says no' and puts a barrier on someone doing a specific action.