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ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tion    Audio Help   [eks-kuh-myoo-ni-key-shuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the act of excommunicating.
2.the state of being excommunicated.
3.the ecclesiastical sentence by which a person is excommunicated.

[Origin: 1425–75; late ME < LL excommūnicātiōn- (s. of excommūnicātiō). See excommunicate, -ion]
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ex·com·mu·ni·ca·tion    Audio Help   (ěks'kə-myōō'nĭ-kā'shən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act of excommunicating.
  2. The state of being excommunicated.
  3. A formal ecclesiastical censure that deprives a person of the right to belong to a church.

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excommunication 
1494, from L.L. excommunicatus, pp. of excommunicare, in Church L. "to expel from communion," lit. "put out of the community," from ex- "out" + communis "common" (see common).

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excommunication

noun
1. the state of being excommunicated 
2. the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society 

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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 church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.
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