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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 church;
exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the
greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or
suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater
is an absolute execution of the offender from the
church and all its rights and advantages, even from
social intercourse with the faithful.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
excommunication
n 1: the state of being excommunicated [syn: {exclusion}, {censure}]
2: the act of banishing a member of the Church from the
communion of believers and the privileges of the Church
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
EXCOMMUNICATION, n.
This excommunication" is a word
In speech ecclesiastical oft heard,
And means the damning, with bell, book and candle,
Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal --
A rite permitting Satan to enslave him
Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him
Gat Huckle
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