Sample sentences for INTERDICTION

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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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