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Excommunication — • Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… … Catholic encyclopedia
excommunication — [ ɛkskɔmynikasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • XIVe; escomination 1160; lat. ecclés. excommunicatio 1 ♦ Peine ecclésiastique par laquelle qqn est retranché de la communion de l Église catholique. ⇒ excommunier. Excommunication de droit (⇒ anathème) , de fait. Bulle … Encyclopédie Universelle
excommunication — Excommunication is the action of a church to deny spiritual benefits to a member, often including its sacramental offices such as the Lord s SupPER and last rites. The excommunicated person is also barred from participation in the church s… … Encyclopedia of Protestantism
excommunication — Excommunication. s. f. Censure Ecclesiastique par laquelle on est excommunié. Excommunication majeure, Qui retranche entierement de la Communion de l Eglise, & de toute communication avec les fidelles. Excommunication mineure, Qui interdit… … Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Excommunication — Excommunication, Kirchenbann, Ausstoßung eines Gliedes aus der christlichen Gemeinde, welches sich durch grobe Sünden und Vergehungen der Kirchengemeinschaft unwürdig gemacht hat. –s– … Damen Conversations Lexikon
Excommunication — Excommunication, lat. deutsch, die Ausschließung aus der Gemeinschaft der Kirche, die strengste kirchl. Censur (die Berechtigung der Kirche folgt aus Math. 8, 7; Paulus 1 Kor. 5, 4; 2 Thessal. 3, 14); sie ist e. minor, wenn der Straffällige von… … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
excommunication — index banishment, expulsion, ostracism, rejection Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Excommunication — A depiction of Pope Gregory IX excommunicating. Excommunication is a religious censure used to deprive, suspend or limit membership in a religious … Wikipedia
Excommunication — L excommunication (du latin ecclésiastique ex communicare, « mettre hors de la communauté ») est, chez les catholiques et les orthodoxes et au moins certain protestants comme les Amish ou les Témoins de Jéhovah, une exclusion de la… … Wikipédia en Français
