He was to raise and remove the censures and interdicts which had been laid, and absolve those who had been excommunicated.
They declared interdicts and the cessation of divine services.
He interdicts all dowry or marriage portion with daughters.
On the contrary, he expressly denounces and interdicts it.
If, in violation of the interdicts which isolate it, it comes in contact with a profane person, then this same sentiment will spread contagiously to this latter and imprint a special character upon him.
When we understand the multiplicity of these interdicts we also understand the way in which they operate and the sanctions which are attached to them.
Every religion contains it, at least in germ, for there are none in which a system of interdicts is not found.
Now the interdicts having this origin are frequently used by individuals as a means of withdrawing certain things from common use and thus establishing a property right over them.
This is the case with the interdicts of age or rank.
But it sometimes happens that it frees itself from this subordination and passes to the first place, and that the system of interdicts swells and exaggerates itself to the point of usurping the entire existence.
III Having determined what the system of interdicts consists in and what its positive and negative functions are, we must now seek the causes which have given it birth.
We may say that its interdicts are the religious interdicts par excellence.
Like the notion of sacredness upon which it rests, the system of interdicts extends into the most diverse relations; it is even used deliberately for utilitarian ends.
There are interdicts of folk-lore of which it is hard to say whether they are religious or magic.
It should be noticed that this explanation of the interdicts does not depend upon the variable symbols by the aid of which religious forces are conceived.
This is the typical form of those interdicts between sacred things of different species, the existence of which we have already pointed out.
But mourning is not made up entirely of interdicts which have to be observed.
Crawfurd, in his account of native customs in the Malay Archipelago, says that "the law even expressly interdicts all interference when there appears a character of fairness in the quarrel.
True pride is the just feeling man has of his moral dignity, and which interdicts him to humble the human personality in others, or to allow it to be humbled in himself.
The government insisted that the obnoxious interdicts be withdrawn: the bishops refused to yield, and were prosecuted in the civil courts and sent to prison.
The Archbishop of St. Andrews interdicts Knox from preaching, 160.
Sidenote: The Archbishop of St. Andrews interdicts Knox from preaching.
If it be this morality which sets bounds to our temper, it is that which interdicts the commission in thought, word, or action, of what would injure another, or disturb the happiness of society.
They perceived that the season was now past for taking advantage of that tragical incident; which, had it been hotly pursued by interdictsand excommunications, was capable of throwing the whole kingdom into combustion.
The first division of interdicts is into orders of abstention, of restitution, and of production.
Of double interdicts we have examples in Uti possidetis and Utrubi; they are called double because the footing of both parties is equal, neither being exclusively plaintiff or defendant, but each sustaining the double role.
Interdicts were formulae by which the praetor either ordered or forbad some thing to be done, and occurred most frequently in case of litigation about possession or quasi-possession.
Of interdicts which order abstention some are simple, others double.
Thirdly, interdicts are divided into simple and double.
The next division is into interdicts for obtaining possession, for retaining possession, and for recovering possession.
The censorshipinterdicts the "Dernier des Abencerrages," where" it finds too warm an interest in the Spanish cause.
But prior to the eleventh century general interdictsare but rarely mentioned in church history.
Each declared his enemy a heretic who had forfeited all rights, and the interdicts which John showered over Germany had been met by Louis with cruel persecution of all ecclesiastics obeying them, wherever he could enforce his power.
Thus chiefs, with family trees which reached backward to the gods, were in a far better position to make good their arbitrary interdicts than mere ordinary mortals, who hardly remembered their grandfathers.
A chief, for example, would frequently lay one of these sacred interdicts on a road or a river, and then nobody would dare to go by either, unless he felt himself strong enough to set the chief's taboo at defiance.
The bands releas'd, implore the seer to say What godhead interdicts the watery way.
All-knowing, say, What godheadinterdicts the watery way?
In consequence, I respectfully request your lordship to withdraw the censures and interdicts you have pronounced against me and those who have had any spiritual communication with me.
What do you think of a bishop who interdicts a priest without giving him a single fact, and without even allowing him to know his accusers?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interdicts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
