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Feb 4, 2009 This week's theme Words from Darwin and Lincoln This week's words propinquity conduce interdict sanguine irascible Today's word in Visual Thesaurus From the Net Why Everyone Should Learn the Theory of Evolution May I make a link? Yes. You don't need anyone's permission to make a link to a site. Linking is what makes the Web work... more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg interdict PRONUNCIATION: (noun: IN-tuhr-dikt, verb: in-tuhr-DIKT) MEANING: noun: A prohibition, especially a formal one, as by a court, church, etc. verb tr.: To prohibit or stop. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin interdictum (prohibition), from interdicere (to prohibit), from dicere (to speak). Ultimately from the Indo-European root deik- (to show, to pronounce solemnly) that is also the source of other words such as judge, verdict, vendetta, revenge, indicate, dictate, and paradigm. USAGE: "In China, near Shanghai, the inhabitants of two small districts have the privilege of raising eggs for the whole surrounding country, and that they may give up their whole time to this business, they are interdicted by law from producing silk." Charles Darwin; The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication; 1868. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. -Edith Wharton, novelist (1862-1937)

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