Crossword-Solution: INTERDICT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Interdict | n. | To forbid; to prohibit or debar; as, to interdict intercourse with foreign nations. |
| Interdict | n. | To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual. |
| Interdict | n. | A prohibitory order or decree; a prohibition. |
| Interdict | n. | A prohibition of the pope, by which the clergy or laymen are restrained from performing, or from attending, divine service, or from administering the offices or enjoying the privileges of the church. |
| Interdict | n. | An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America. |
We have 26 clues for the answer “INTERDICT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| official prohibition or restraint | 1 answer |
| destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | 1 answer |
| Court order prohibiting something | 1 answer |
| A legal or religious prohibition or order | 1 answer |
| AUTHORITATIVE prohibition | 3 answers |
| Official prohibition | 3 answers |
| A COURT ORDER PROHIBITING A PARTY FROM DOING A CERTAIN ACTIVITY | 11 answers |
| Head off | 16 answers |
| Interdict | 21 answers |
| Enjoin | 26 answers |
| Debar | 31 answers |
| injunction | 32 answers |
| Preclude | 33 answers |
| Forbid | 34 answers |
| proscribe | 36 answers |
| Disallow | 44 answers |
| Prohibit | 49 answers |
| Restrict | 52 answers |
| Inhibit | 52 answers |
| Forestall | 53 answers |
| Sequester | 65 answers |
| Obliterate | 67 answers |
| Deprive. | 68 answers |
| Restrain | 72 answers |
| Veto | 74 answers |
| Stop | 111 answers |
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Sentences with INTERDICT (5)
Such was the splendour; and the Tempter now His invitation earnestly renewed:— “What doubts the Son of God to sit and eat? These are not fruits forbidden; no interdict Defends the touching of these viands pure; 370 Their taste no knowledge works, at least of evil, But life preserves, destroys life’s enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.
Yes, for over two hundred years no man crossed 30° to 175° and lived to tell his story—not until chance drew me across and back again, and public opinion, revolting at last against the drastic regulations of our long-dead forbears, demanded that my story be given to the world, and that the narrow interdict which commanded peace, prosperity, and happiness to halt at 30° and 175° be removed forever.
But suppose that he were to retort, 'Thrasymachus, what do you mean? If one of these numbers which you interdict be the true answer to the question, am I falsely to say some other number which is not the right one?--is that your meaning?'--How would you answer him? Just as if the two cases were at all alike! he said.
Ban of the empire (German Hist.), an imperial interdict by which political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.
Here the proletaire pursues property in the street, there the legislator lays an interdict upon it; now, a professor of political economy or of industrial legislation, [47] paid to defend it, undermines it with redoubled blows; at another--time, an academy calls it in question, [48] or inquires as to the progress of its demolition.
Quotes with INTERDICT (3)
Sir, — Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point; but can it be too much to ask [for a definitive acknowledgement that at least they are animals?… Many hon. members may object to the proposed Bill enacting that, in statutes respecting the suffrage, 'wherever words occur which import the masculine gender they shall be held to include women;' but could any object to the insertion of a clause in another Act that…
All U.S. irony is based on an implicit "I don't really mean what I say." So what does irony as a cultural norm mean to say? That it's impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it's too bad it's impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today's irony ends up saying: "How very banal to ask what I mean." Anyone with the heretical gall to ask an ironist what he actually stands for ends up looking like a hysteric or a prig. And herein lies the o…
In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1973–2010).