interdictive
adjEtymology From interdict + -ive.
1
Having the power to prohibit.
- interdictive measures
- [A]gainſt a perſiſting ſtubbornes, or the fear of a reprobate ſenſe, [will be requir'd] a timely ſeparation from the Flock by that interdictive Sentence, leſt his Converſation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breath a peſtilential murrein into the other Sheepe.1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 159:
- Derived terms
- interdictively