interdictive
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪktɪv
Adjective edit
interdictive (not comparable)
- Having the power to prohibit.
- Synonym: prohibiting
- interdictive measures
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159:
- [A]gainſt a perſiſting ſtubbornes, or the fear of a reprobate ſenſe, [will be requir'd] a timely ſeparation from the Flock by that interdictive Sentence, leſt his Converſation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breath a peſtilential murrein into the other Sheepe.
References edit
- “interdictive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.