EXCOMMUNICATION
\ɛkskəmjˌuːnɪkˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɛkskəmjˌuːnɪkˈeɪʃən], \ɛ_k_s_k_ə_m_j_ˌuː_n_ɪ_k_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXCOMMUNICATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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 church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
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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 church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Act of excommunicating; exclusion from the fellowship of the church;—ecclesiastical interdict of two kinds— lesser excommunication, debarring from the eucharist; greater, total excision from the church; anathema.
By Thomas Sheridan
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