different between barring vs interdict

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?????(?)/

Verb

barring

1. present participle of bar

Noun

barring (plural barrings)

1. (collective) Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
2. The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
3. The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
4. (mining) Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
5. (sewing) The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.

   Synonym: tacking

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Preposition

barring

1. Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of.

Synonyms

• apart from, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except

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English

Etymology

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interd?c? (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + d?c? (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?-.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): (noun) /??nt?d?kt/, (verb) /?nt??d?kt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): (noun) /??nt?d?kt/, (verb) /?nt??d?kt/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?dict

Noun

interdict (plural interdicts)

1. 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.
2. (Scotland, law) An injunction.

Translations

Verb

interdict (third-person singular simple present interdicts, present participle interdicting, simple past and past participle interdicted)

1. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict. [from 13th c.]
   • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani

     An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.

2. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). [from 20th c.]
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 756:

     Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.

Related terms

• interdiction
• interdictive
• interdictory
• interdictively
• interdictor

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