excommunicationn.
/ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən/ The action of excommunicating or cutting off from fellowship.
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a. Ecclesiastical. The action of excluding an offending Christian from the communion of the Church; the state or fact of being so excluded. Also in wider sense: The exclusion of an offending member from any religious community, e.g. Jewish or heathen.The Canon Law recognizes two kinds of excommunication: the lesser, by which an offender is deprived of the right to participate in the sacraments; the greater, by which he is cut off from all communication with the church or its members.
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society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun]
mansingOE
amansingOE
cursing?c1120
malloka1400
malediction1447
sequestrationa1450
comminationa1464
excommengement1495
excommuny1502
fulmination1502
excommunicationa1513
aggravation1531
anathematization1547
anathemization1549
anathema1565
anathemea1575
anathematical1583
anathematizing1593
sequestering1620
excommunion1641
dischurching1644
excision1647
excommunicating1648
unchurching1655
consecration1700
innodation1731
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxiiii. f. lxxxxiii This to be obseruyd vpon payne of excomunycacion.
1555 R. Eden tr. Coppie of Bull in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 172v We furthermore streightly inhibite all maner of persons..vnder the peyne of the sentence of excommunication..to trauayle for marchaundies.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 276 This part of the Power of the Keyes, by which men were thrust out from the Kingdom of God, is that which is called Excommunication.
1780 W. Cowper Mahometan Hog in Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 435/2 A part in every swine, No..friend..May taste..On pain of excommunication.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 34 A sentence of excommunication was pronounced, which enjoined Ambrose to depart from Milan without delay.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 192 Excommunication seems but a light thing when there are many communions.
b. transferred.
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1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 15 The yellow flag which indicates that sanitory excommunication [i.e. quarantine].
1844 T. Hood Haunted House i, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 1 A House—but under some prodigious ban Of excommunication.
1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 34 He calls you a utilitarian. The greater excommunication being thus denounced against you.
2. Short for ‘sentence of excommunication’.
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society > faith > worship > excommunication > [noun] > rite of
cursea1050
sentencec1290
malisonc1300
censure138.
church censurec1460
ban1481
censurya1513
anathematism1567
anathema1603
imprecation1603
excommunication1702
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 86 To restrain any Excommunication from being pronounced..without the approbation of the Bishop.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lvi. 366 By some acts of rapine or sacrilege, he had incurred a papal excommunication.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vii. 188 The Pope..fulminated against Baldwin the excommunication destined for him.
3. (See quot. 1751.)
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1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) (at cited word) The rule of the Benedictines gives the name Excommunication, to the being excluded from the oratory, and the common table of the house.
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