excommunication (ekskomunikaʻshon)

[= F. excommunication = Pr. escumeniazon = Sp. excomulgacion, excomunicacion (obs.) = It. esco muni caz i one, scomunicazione, tion, the offender is suspended from the use of the sacra The act of excommunication from fellowship with the visible in holy duties. excommunicable (eks-ko-mu'ni-ka-bl), a . [ ate + -able .] Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; that may incur or give occasion for excommunication. IMG:content-0870.png:[blocks in formation] Hooker , Eccles. Polity, iii. 1. Excommunication seems but a light thing when there are many communions. It was no light thing when it was equivalent to outlawry; when the person excommunicated might be seized and imprisoned at the will of the ordinary: when he was cut off from all holy offices; when no one might speak to him, trade with him, or show him the most trivial courtesy; and when his friends, if they dared to a ist him, were subject to the same penalties. Froude, Hist. Eng., I. 185. Excommunication by candle. See candle. excommunicator (eks-ko-mu'ni-kā-tor), n. [ excommunicator , excommunicare , excommunicate: see excommunicate , v.] One who excommunicates.