Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN'TER-DICT, n. [L. interdictum.]

1. Prohibition; a prohibiting order or decree.
2. A papal prohibition by which the clergy are restrained from performing divine service; a species of ecclesiastical censure. The pope has sometimes laid a whole kingdom under an interdict.
3. A papal prohibition by which persons are restrained from attending divine service, or prevented from enjoying some privilege.