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▪ I. disˈfellowship, n. [f. dis- 9 + fellowship n.] Want of or exclusion from fellowship.
1608S. Hieron Defence iii. 7 Kneeling at the Lords feast is a cariage of abasement and inferiority, and such as importeth disfellowship with him. 1619Denison Heav. Banq. (1631) 323. 1882 A. Mahan Autobiog. xi. 242 The spirit of exclusion and disfellowship. ▪ II. disˈfellowship, v. [dis- 7 c.] trans. To exclude from fellowship (chiefly, religious communion); to excommunicate. (Now U.S.)
1831Troy (N.Y.) Watchman 3 Sept. (Th.), They were disfellowshipped by the association. 1849Mormon Regul. in Frontier (Iowa) Guard. 28 Nov. (Bartlett), No person that has been disfellowshipped, or excommunicated from the church, will be allowed [etc.]. 1882A. Mahan Autobiog. ix. 170 In all directions we were openly disfellowshipped. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 836 [Benj. Randall] was called to account for holding to an unlimited atonement and the freedom of the will, and was disfellowshipped. 1889J. M. Whiton in Chr. World Pulpit XXXVI. 139 On the strength of a few sentences..the Calvinists of the last century disfellowshipped the Wesleyans. |