Excommunication vs Interdict - What's the difference?
excommunication | interdict |
The act of excommunicating]] or [[eject, ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
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:
As nouns the difference between excommunication and interdict
is that excommunication is the act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual while interdict is 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.As a verb interdict is
to exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.excommunication
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(en noun)interdict
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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.