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excommunicable, a.|ɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkəb(ə)l|
[f. excommunic-ate v. + -able.]
Liable to be excommunicated; deserving excommunication. Of an offence: Punishable by excommunication.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. i. (1617) 84 Altho' they be impious idolaters, wicked Heretikes, persons excommunicable. 1646Burd. Issach. in Phenix 1708 II. 281 This Assembly is above the King..to their Orders he must give Obedience: otherwise he is excommunicable. 1680Baxter Cath. Commun. (1684) 13 To render each other odious, or vile, and excommunicable. 1836Keble in Hooker's Wks. (1845) I. Pref. 28 What offences are excommunicable. |