- excommunication
- noun Date: 15th century 1. an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership 2. exclusion from fellowship in a group or community • excommunicative adjective
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Excommunication — • Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… … Catholic encyclopedia
excommunication — [ ɛkskɔmynikasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XIVe; escomination 1160; lat. ecclés. excommunicatio 1 ♦ Peine ecclésiastique par laquelle qqn est retranché de la communion de l Église catholique. ⇒ excommunier. Excommunication de droit (⇒ anathème) , de fait. Bulle … Encyclopédie Universelle
excommunication — Excommunication is the action of a church to deny spiritual benefits to a member, often including its sacramental offices such as the Lord s SupPER and last rites. The excommunicated person is also barred from participation in the church s… … Encyclopedia of Protestantism
excommunication — Excommunication. s. f. Censure Ecclesiastique par laquelle on est excommunié. Excommunication majeure, Qui retranche entierement de la Communion de l Eglise, & de toute communication avec les fidelles. Excommunication mineure, Qui interdit… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
Excommunication — Ex com*mu ni*ca tion, n. [L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication.] The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Excommunication — Excommunication, Kirchenbann, Ausstoßung eines Gliedes aus der christlichen Gemeinde, welches sich durch grobe Sünden und Vergehungen der Kirchengemeinschaft unwürdig gemacht hat. –s– … Damen Conversations Lexikon
Excommunication — Excommunication, lat. deutsch, die Ausschließung aus der Gemeinschaft der Kirche, die strengste kirchl. Censur (die Berechtigung der Kirche folgt aus Math. 8, 7; Paulus 1 Kor. 5, 4; 2 Thessal. 3, 14); sie ist e. minor, wenn der Straffällige von… … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
excommunication — index banishment, expulsion, ostracism, rejection Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
excommunication — mid 15c., from L.L. excommunicationem (nom. excommunicatio), from pp. stem of excommunicare put out of the community, in Church L. to expel from communion, from ex out (see EX (Cf. ex )) + communicare, from communis common (see COMMON (Cf … Etymology dictionary
Excommunication — A depiction of Pope Gregory IX excommunicating. Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive, suspend or limit membership in a religious … Wikipedia
Excommunication — L excommunication (du latin ecclésiastique ex communicare, « mettre hors de la communauté ») est, chez les catholiques et les orthodoxes et au moins certain protestants comme les Amish ou les Témoins de Jéhovah, une exclusion de la… … Wikipédia en Français
