To lay under an interdict; to cut off from the enjoyment of religious privileges, as a city, a church, an individual.
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.
The ecclesiastical banning in an area of all sacraments except for baptism and extreme unction. In general it does not ban high feast days. Used to force persons/institution/community or secular lords to a view dictated by the church/pope. (MEDIEV-L. Medieval Terms)
Religious censure, often used in the Middle Ages as a tool by the senior clergy to force a secular lord's hand. Under the interdict, no religious services can be conducted, so no marriages, burials, or baptisms could be performed. Given the importance of religion to the people of the Middle Ages, the interdict was a powerful weapon, to a degree balancing the physical force available to the secular lords.
The ecclesiastical banning of all sacraments-except for baptism and extreme unction and for sacrements performed on high feast days. Interdicts were enforced to force persons, institutions, a community, or a secular lord to accept a view dictated by the Church or Pope.
an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district
a censure, or prohibition, excluding the faithful from participation in certain holy things
a measure which seeks to punish a population or a religious body (e
an ecclesiastical penalty directed against an entire country
a refusal of all sacraments to the people within the parish, diocese, or nation
an ecclesiastical punishment excluding the faithful from participation in spiritual things; it could be applied to individuals, to local areas such as parishes, or to whole populations
a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district Source