Middlemarch vocabulary

It is strikingly evident that society can make no improvement while it follows a Bible which is interdicted from improvement. [...] Bibles in this way become masters of human thought, and shackles for the soul, and thus inflict serious evils upon society by their tendency to stop all moral, and religious progress.

Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)

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The NATO mission would be to maintain the Atlantic Bridge and continue transoceanic trade, and the obvious Soviet mission would be to interdict this trade.

Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.187 (1984)

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instead of the bloodless fiction of the drama they began to slash each other in reality, and had it not been for the interference of the audience there is no doubt that lives would have been lost. After this, swords were interdicted and staves substituted.

Humours of Irish Life: William Carleton, The Battle of Aughrim

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I was solemnly interdicted by her, on her recovery, from touching my brother any more on any pretence whatever; and my poor mother, who, I could see, wished otherwise, meekly confirmed the interdict, by saying: ‘No doubt you are right, my dear Jane.’

Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)

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In those days the priests no longer took any woman in legitimate marriage, but kept good mistresses as pretty as they could get; which custom has since been interdicted by the council, as everyone knows, because, indeed, it was not pleasant that the private confessions of people should be retold to a wench who would laugh at them,

Honoré de Balzac. Droll Stories.

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she learnt also that her secret visits were to end. In vain she wept and writhed against the interdict,

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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That I found learning a pleasure I cannot conscientiously declare. I have passed happier hours than those I spent in cantering round four bare whitewashed walls on a snorting horse, with my interdicted stirrups crossed upon the saddle.

F. Anstey. The Talking Horse And Other Tales (1892)