Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of an interdict; constituting an interdict; prohibitory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the power to prohibit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having the power to prohibit.

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Examples

  • There had been a general heightening of concern about the potential of terrorism over this summer, but no operational information that would have allowed us to have taken interdictive action against this specific event.

    CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2001 2001

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