Thesaurus: excommunication

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1. n. 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.
2. n. the state of being excommunicated
3. n. 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
4. 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.
5. The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiasticalcensure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for thetime, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion fromfellowship in things spiritual.
6. n:100 n. the state of being excommunicated n. 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