commination (kominashon)

[F.comm i nation = Pr. com in a cio = Sp. con min a cion = Pg. comminação = It. comm in azione, With terrible comminations to all them that did resist. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 264. Those thunders of commination which not unfrequently roll from orthodox pulpits. Is. Taylor, Specifically-2. In the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, a penitential office directed to be used after the Litany on Ash Wednesday and at other times appointed by the ordinary. It consists of a proclamation of God's anger and judgments against sinners in sentences taken from Deut. xxvii, and other pa ages of Scripture (to each of which the people are to respond Amen), an exhortation to repentance, the 51st psalm, and penitential pray Prayer-Book, but the prayers contained in the English ers. There is no office of commination in the American office are ordered to be used at the end of the Litany on Ash Wednesday.