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INTERDICT (Lat. interdictum, from interdicere, to forbid by decree, lit., interpose by speech)

INTERDICT (See also:
LAT
Lat. interdictum, from interdicere, to forbid by See also:
DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)
decree, lit., interpose by speech) , in its full technical sense as an ecclesiastical See also:

TERM

term, a See also:

SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence by a competent ecclesiastical authority forbidding all celebration of public See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship, the See also:

ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of some sacraments (See also:

BAPTISM

baptism, See also:

CONFIRMATION (Lat. confirmatio, from confirmare, to establish, make firm)

confirmation and See also:

PENANCE (Old Fr. penance, fr. Lat. poenitentia, penitence)

penance are permitted) and ecclesiastical See also:

BURIAL

burial. From See also:

general interdicts, however, are excepted the feast days of See also:

CHRISTMAS (i.e. the Mass of Christ)

Christmas, See also:

EASTER

Easter, See also:

WHITSUNDAY, or PENTECOST (Lat. Pentecoste, Gr. 7revr?p oa'Til sc. iyipa, Fr. Pentecote, Ger. Pfingsten, fr. O. H. Ger. fimfchustin)

Whitsunday, the See also:

ASSUMPTION, FEAST OF

Assumption and Corpus Christi. An interdict may be either See also:

LOCAL

local, See also:

PERSONAL

personal or mixed, according as it applies to a locality, to a particular See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person or class of persons, or to a particular locality as See also:

long as it shall be the See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of a particular person or class of persons. Local interdicts again may be either general or particular; in the latter instance they refer only to particular buildings set apart for religious services. An interdict is a measure which seeks to punish a See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population or a religious See also:

BODY

body (e.g. a See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter) for the See also:

FAULT (Mid. Eng. faute, through the French, from the popular Latin use of fallere, to fail; the originallof the Latin being replaced in English in the 15th century)

fault of some only of its members, who cannot be reached separately. It is a See also:

PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty directed against society rather than against individuals. In 869 See also:

HINCMAR (c. 805-882)

Hincmar of See also:

LAON

Laon laid his entire See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese under an interdict, a proceeding for which he was severely censured by Hincmar of See also:

Reims. In the See also:

CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle of Ademar of See also:

LIMOGES

Limoges (ad See also:

ann. 994) it is stated that See also:

Bishop Alduin introduced there " a new See also:

plan for punishing the wickedness of his See also:

PEOPLE

people; he ordered the churches and monasteries to cease from divine worship and the people to abstain from divine praise, and this he called See also:

EXCOMMUNICATION (Lat. ex, out of, away from; communis, common)

excommunication " (see See also:

GIESELER, JOHANN KARL LUDWIG (1792–1854)

Gieseler, Kirchengesch. iii. 342, where also the See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text is given of a proposal to a similar effect made by Odolric, See also:

abbot of St See also:

MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

Martial, at the See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council of Limoges in 1031). It was not until the iith See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century that the use of the interdict obtained a recognized See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place among the means of discipline at the disposal of the See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

HIERARCHY (Gr. iepos, holy, and apxe.v, to rule)

hierarchy, which used it, without See also:

GREAT

great success, to bring back the See also:

SECULAR (Lat. saecularis, of or belonging to an age or generation, saeculum)

secular authorities to obedience. Important See also:

HISTORICAL

historical instances of the use of the interdict occur in the cases of See also:

Scotland under See also:

Pope See also:

Alexander III. in 1181, of See also:

France under See also:

Innocent III. in 1200, and of See also:

England under the same pope in 1209.

So far as the interdict is " personal," that is to say, applied to a particular individual, it may be regarded as a See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of partial excommunication; for instance, a bishop may, for certain faults, be interdicted from entering the See also:

church (ab ingressu ecclesiae), that is, without being excommunicated, he must not celebrate or assist at the celebration of divine offices. Interdicts cease at the expiration of the term, or by removal (relaxatio). General and local interdicts are no longer in use. See the canonists in tit. 39 See also:

lib. v., De sententia excommun., &c.; L. Ferraris, Prompta bibliotheca canonica, &c., s.v. Interdictum." Interdict, in Scots See also:

law, is an See also:

order of See also:

court pronounced on cause shown for stopping any proceedings complained of as illegal or wrongful. It may be resorted to as a remedy against all encroachments either on See also:

PROPERTY

property or See also:

possession. For the analogous See also:

ENGLISH

English practice see See also:

INJUNCTION (from Lat. injungere, to fasten, or attach to, to lay a burden or charge on, to enjoin)

INJUNCTION.

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