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law )法律 an official order from a court that orders you not to do something (法庭的)禁令 They are trying to get an interim interdict to stop construction of the road. 他们正试图获得临时禁令,停止道路建设。
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(in the Roman Catholic Church )天主教 an order banning somebody from taking part in church services, etc. 禁罚;禁行圣事令
Word OriginMiddle English entredite (in the ecclesiastical sense), from Old French entredit, from Latin interdictum, past participle of interdicere ‘interpose, forbid by decree’, from inter- ‘between’ + dicere ‘say’. The spelling change in the 16th cent. was due to association with the Latin form.