Interdict vs Cutoff - What's the difference?
interdict | cutoff |
A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
(Roman Catholic) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.
* Ayliffe
To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction.
* Milton
To forbid (someone) from doing something.
(transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc).
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 756:
The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
A road, path of channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
A device that stops the flow of a current.
A cessation in a flow or activity.
(poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the preflop in Texas hold 'em.
(chiefly, in the plural) shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers
As nouns the difference between interdict and cutoff
is that interdict is a papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (eg, a king or an oligarchy with similar powers) extreme unction/anointing of the sick is excepted while cutoff is the point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.As a verb interdict
is (roman catholic) to exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.interdict
English
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(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- An archbishop may not only excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his vicar general may do the same.
- Charged not to touch the interdicted tree.
- Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.