"Excommunication" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A sentence of censure prouounced by one of the spiritual courts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical cognizance. It is described in the books
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 church;
exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
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In ecclesiastical law. A spiritual punishment, consisting in withdraw-ing from a baptized person (whether be-longing to the clergy or the …
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