Interdict

Interdict comes from a Latin word which means "to forbid."

An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920

Didn't he put Rome under an Interdict when one one of his Cardinals was stabbed in public?

Photos from Mass for Pope Adrian IV 2009

Mr. Rodwell prefers “Interdict the healthful viands.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

To Interdict and Excommunication, the Pope now added his last sentence;

A Child's History of England 2007

The King told the bishops that if any Interdict were laid upon his kingdom, he would tear out the eyes and cut off the noses of all the monks he could lay hold of, and send them over to Rome in that undecorated state as a present for their master.

A Child's History of England 2007

Excommunication was, next to the Interdict I told you of at the close of the last chapter, the great weapon of the clergy.

A Child's History of England 2007

The Pope sent three bishops to the King, to threaten him with an Interdict.

A Child's History of England 2007

Nor was this all; for the Pope, coming to the aid of his precious friend, laid the kingdom under an Interdict again, because the people took part with the Barons.

A Child's History of England 2007

The bishops, nevertheless, soon published the Interdict, and fled.

A Child's History of England 2007

After the meetings, came the Interdict and then the Excommunications.

More on Those Excommunications in St Louis by Archbishop Burke Last Winter 2006