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authoritative prohibition; or to stop or hamper- What Jem did was something I'd do as a matter of course had I not been under Atticus's interdict, which I assumed included not fighting horrible old ladies.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
interdict = orders not to do some things
- The only punishments which the political tribunals can inflict are removal, or the interdiction of public functions for the future.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- Mordred attacked; the Bishop of Canterbury dropped down on him with the Interdict.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Ali then entered bringing coffee and chibouques; as to M. Baptistin, this portion of the building was interdicted to him.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- What we were supposed to be doing was what they called an interdiction number.Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels
- When he has given distinct proof of being a philosopher, you will raise your interdict.Henry James -- The American
- The remark does not interdict the further saying, if his scruples had been ever so extreme, not improbably he would at this time have smothered them.Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
- But the names of saints are not interdicted.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- This could be the beginning of a conventional war against NATO, its first step being interdiction of the sea lines of communication.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- But in this case the political interdict is a consequence of the sentence, and not the sentence itself.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 1
- A freebie from the road gods, a car like this will make a great undercover vehicle for drug interdiction.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Close to retrieval circle and interdict!Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- What, bury him despite the interdict?Sophocles -- Antigone
- Closer to the ship, occasional vague, reptilian shapes would blunder into the interdiction field, cry out, and then crash away through indigo mists.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- Pansy was as ready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had not extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on those of love.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- Pansy was as ready for a dance as ever; she was not of a generalising turn and had not extended to other pleasures the interdict she had seen placed on those of love.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- In the meantime the host and his wife hurried down with lamps into the cellar, which had so long been interdicted to them and where a frightful spectacle awaited them.Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- In September, with the help of Winnie's lawyers, I brought an urgent application for an interdict against the local Brandfort security police to restrain them from harassing my daughter.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- It gratified Mrs. Penniman to be able to feel conscientiously that this scene virtually removed the interdict which Catherine had placed upon her further communion with Morris Townsend.Henry James -- Washington Square
- Pennsylvania and North Carolina are the two which contain the interdiction in these words: "As standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, THEY OUGHT NOT to be kept up."Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
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