Interdicted

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Forbid or ban something officially due to authority or law
2. Prevented from occurring or being used through legal means or official prohibition
3. Declared by authority as not allowed or banned ; stopped from taking place or being used by legal restriction

Etymology: "Interdicted" is the past tense and past participle of "interdict," so its story is really the story of the verb. The root is Latin "interdīcō," built from "inter-," meaning "between," and "dīcō," meaning "say." To interdict was literally to say something across or between parties, which in Roman usage became an authoritative speaking-out that forbade an action. The sense of formal prohibition was already built into the Latin verb. The word reached English through Old French "entredire," meaning "forbid," and entered Middle English as "entrediten." The French form kept the same meaning of prohibition, so the English verb inherited a legal and official flavour from the start, rather than a casual sense of simply disapproving.

Synonyms: prohibited, forbidden