单词 | interdiction |
释义 | interdictionn. The action of interdicting, or fact of being interdicted. 1. The action of forbidding by or as by authority; authoritative or peremptory prohibition. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > prohibition > [noun] > proscription or interdiction inhibition1387 interdiction1579 proscription1620 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. A6v Against those interdictions in the law which seeme to compas in no more but the Canaanites Iebusites &c. 1656 W. Montagu tr. J. Du Bosc Accomplish'd Woman 133 Freedom extinguishes desire, and interdiction kindles it. 1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 208 This Interdiction of sepulchral Rites. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. iii. 121 This act operated as an absolute interdiction of the catholic rites. 2. Ecclesiastical. The issuing of an interdict; the action of laying (a place, etc.), or condition of being laid, under an interdict: see interdict n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > excommunication > interdict > [noun] > issuing of interdictingc1380 interdictiona1513 interditement1530 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xiiiiv Of the maner of this enterdiccion of this lande haue I seen dyuerse opynyons. 1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xiii. 16 To use most violent interdictions, and to shoot out cursings. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. i. 112 Several poor Bishops are rendred subject to interdictions and censures. a1763 W. Shenstone Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 315 The wily pontiff scorns not to recall His interdictions. 3. Law. a. Scots Law. A restraint imposed upon a person incapable of managing his own affairs on account of unsoundness of mind, improvidence, etc. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > restraint on incapable or irresponsible person interdictionc1575 c1575 Balfour's Practicks (1754) 186 All publicatiounis and interdictiounis aught and sould be maid..quhair the persoun interdictit dwellis. 1581 Sc. 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 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. vi. §37 Our custom hath interdictions, whereby persons, acknowledging their own weakness..do therefore bind themselves, that they shall not act without the consent of those persons, interdictors therein mentioned. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. vii. §32 Judicial interdiction is imposed by a Sentence of the Court of Session. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 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 quot. 1861 at interdictor n. b.] Categories » b. = interdict n. 2a, 2b. c. Roman 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. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > sentence > forbidding necessities of life interdiction of fire and water1579 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > outlaw > sentence of banishment or outlawry interdiction of fire and water1579 1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 961 So were Brutus and Cassius, and all their friends condemned, with interdiction of water and fire. 1867–8 Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 64 §16 The particular registers of inhibitions and interdictions throughout Scotland shall be discontinued. 1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of 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. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > interruption of supplies by interdiction1944 1944 B.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. 1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists 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. 1963 Listener 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. 1966 Guardian 26 Sept. 9/1 Using a bombing technique known as ‘interdiction in depth’, Navy planes had destroyed two locomotives, 225 goods wagons. 1973 Times 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1513 |
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