innodate

verb

1. (with anathema or interdict) To bind up, as in a knot, with the punishment of anathema or interdict; to anathemize or interdict.

   obsolete

   we do innodate with the like sentence of anathema

Where it comes from

First attested in 1630; adapted from Medieval Latin vinculis anathematis innodare (“to bind (someone) with/in the bounds of anathema”), borrowed from Latin innōdātus, perfect passive participle of innōdō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + nodus (“knot”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry innodate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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