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interdiction|ɪntəˈdɪkʃən| Also 5–6 enterdiccion, 6 interdiccion. [ad. L. interdictiōn-em, n. of action from interdīcĕre to interdict. In its earliest form agreeing with an OF. type *entrediction: cf. interdict n. and v.] The action of interdicting, or fact of being interdicted. 1. The action of forbidding by or as by authority; authoritative or peremptory prohibition.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf A vj b, Against those interdictions in the law which seeme to compas in no more but the Canaanites Iebusites [etc.]. 1656W. Montagu Accompl. Wom. 133 Freedom extinguishes desire, and interdiction kindles it. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 208 This Interdiction of sepulchral Rites. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. iii. 113 This act operated as an absolute interdiction of the catholic rites. 2. Eccl. The issuing of an interdict; the action of laying (a place, etc.), or condition of being laid, under an interdict: see interdict n. 1.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 318 Of the maner of this Enterdiccion of this lande haue I seen dyuerse opynyons. 1592tr. Junius' Revel. xiii. 16 To use most violent interdictions, and to shoot out cursings. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. i. 112 Several poor Bishops are rendred subject to interdictions and censures. c1750Shenstone Ruined Abbey 218 The wily Pontiff scorns not to recall His interdictions. 3. Law. a. Sc. Law. A restraint imposed upon a person incapable of managing his own affairs on account of unsoundness of mind, improvidence, etc. b. = interdict n. 2 a, b. c. Rom. Law. interdiction of fire and water: a sentence of banishment or outlawry forbidding the supply to the person sentenced of fire and water or the necessaries of life.
c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 186 All publicatiounis and interdictiounis aught and sould be maid..quhair the persoun interdictit dwellis. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 961 So were Brutus and Cassius, and all their friends condemned, with interdiction of water and fire. 1581Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) c. 118 That all inhibitiones and interdictiones to be raised hereafter for quhatsumever cause..be..produced..to the Schireffe clerk of the Schire, quhair the persone interdited or inhibit dwellis. 1681[see interdictor]. 1754Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. i. vii. §32 Judicial interdiction is imposed by a Sentence of the Court of Session. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot., Interdiction is a system of judicial, or of voluntary restraint, provided for those who, from weakness, facility, or profusion, are liable to imposition... Voluntary interdiction is imposed by the sole act of the interdicted person, who, being conscious of his facility, lays himself under this restraint... Judicial interdiction is imposed by sentence of the Court of Session; generally proceeding on an action at the instance of a near kinsman of the facile person. [See also interdictor, quot. 1861.] 1867–8Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 64 §16 The particular registers of inhibitions and interdictions throughout Scotland shall be discontinued. 1880Muirhead Gaius & Ulpian Digest 472 Citizenship..was lost..by..interdiction of fire and water, which practically was outlawry. 4. The interruption of supply operations by aerial bombing. Freq. attrib.
1944B.B.C. War Rep. 1 Nov. (1946) xiv. 283 The enemy railways were harassed day and night by what was known as ‘interdiction’—or, in other words, rail-cutting by air attack. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Feb. 56/3 The inability of the Air Force interdiction campaign—Operation Strangle—to bring about the collapse of Communist armies in Korea has obscured the true potential of air interdiction. 1963Listener 21 Feb. 331/1 Overwhelming air support, invaluable as it was in an interdiction role, sometimes proved a clumsy weapon when used in close co-operation with ground forces. 1966Guardian 26 Sept. 9/1 Using a bombing technique known as ‘interdiction in depth’, Navy planes had destroyed two locomotives, 225 goods wagons. 1973Times 19 Apr. 18/8 Sensitive Washington spokesmen do not like the term bombing. They find it jarring. In Vietnam it was interdiction, armed reconnaissance and protective reaction. |