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The act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church
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excommunication
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For the canonical penalty of excommunication as regulated by the Code of Canon Law of 1917 and the present Code , see excommunication#Catholic Church . This article reflects the state of before 1917. In the canon law of the Catholic Church , excommunication ...
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n. The act of excommunicate or eject; especially 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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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 ...
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n. the state of being excommunicated [syn: exclusion , censure ] the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church; cutting a person off from a religious society [syn: excision ]
Usage examples of excommunication.
Savonarola, to remind the Domenican that it was he, not Ragoczy, who was under the pain of excommunication, and that as a result he had no right to serve Mass, let alone question the state of the souls of those seeking Communion, which would not be valid in any case, being, as it was, Savonarola, the excommunicant, who had performed the consecration.
When even excommunication failed to make him yield and church bells had been silenced in important sees, the clergy in extremity had summoned Bernard from Clairvaux to bring the culprit to submission.
Guillaume, worn down by the inconveniences of excommunication, determined, since he was afraid of no one, to himself accost the man of God boldly with threats of reprisal.
Innocent found himself obliged to launch upon the household of the king the edict of excommunication and interdict.
It smote the bishops who had executed the royal plans, widowed the newly wed sister of the queen, and adjured the Count of Vermandois to return to his lawful wife on pain of excommunication and interdict on all his lands.
He could only recommend excommunication for the mimes and histrions who were corrupting the public taste.
There he read that the king checked appeals to Rome, made excommunication conditional, exercised control over vacant sees and ecclesiastical preferments.
Sick kings were not subject to excommunication, and the chronicle says that Henry was sick in his stronghold above the Vienne.
The Bishops of London and Salisbury appealed to the Pope for absolution from the excommunication visited upon them from Clairvaux on the previous Palm Sunday.
Becket might reclaim his see and lead his exiles home, if, when, and after the bishops of England were freed from excommunication and his lands from the menaces of interdict.
Bishops of London and Salisbury from the excommunication that Thomas had launched on the Palm Sunday of the previous year.
Bishop of Worcester, to get passage to England in time to visit proscription and excommunication upon all the ecclesiastics upon whom Henry depended for the coronation.
He suspended the Archbishop of York and renewed the excommunication of the Bishops of London and Salisbury, who had been relieved of his censures all out of season by the Archbishop of Rouen to make way for the coronation.
He confessed that he had been exceedingly angry upon hearing of the excommunication of his bishops, and that it was possible that the discomposure of his face, the flashing of his eyes, and certain choleric words that had slipped from his lips in that moment of passion, had put it into the heads of the assassins to avenge his indignation.
Bernard, John of Agnani charged Philip and Richard, on pain of excommunication, to abate their demands upon the King of England.