greater excommunication

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• Excommunication — Exclusion from the membership of the church or from communion with faithful Christians. Those judged tolerati could still mingle with the faithful, but those vitandi could not and were exiled. See also Anathema. A censure imposed by church… …   Medieval glossary

• 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 — 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 — A sentence of censure pronounced by one of the spiritual courts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical cognizance. It is described as two fold: (1) The lesser excommunication, which is an ecclesiastical censure, excluding the party from the… …   Black's law dictionary

• excommunication — A sentence of censure pronounced by one of the spiritual courts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical cognizance. It is described as two fold: (1) The lesser excommunication, which is an ecclesiastical censure, excluding the party from the… …   Black's law dictionary

• excommunication — Expulsion from membership in a church. Nance v Busby, 91 Tenn 303, 333. A sentence of excommunication, by an ecclesiastical court. This sentence was of two grades. The lesser excluded the person from partaking of the sacraments the greater… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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• BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE —    a ceremony at one time attending the greater excommunication in the Romish Church, when after sentence was read from the book, a bell was rung, and the candle extinguished …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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