excommunication
11Excommunication — 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… …
12excommunication — /eks keuh myooh ni kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of excommunicating. 2. the state of being excommunicated. 3. the ecclesiastical sentence by which a person is excommunicated. [1425 75; late ME < LL excommunication (s. of excommunicatio). See… …
13excommunication — (èk sko mu ni ka sion ; en vers, de sept syllabes) s. f. Punition ecclésiastique, séparant quelqu un de la communion extérieure d une Église, c est à dire du corps de ceux qui la composent. Fulminer une excommunication, une sentence d… …
14EXCOMMUNICATION — s. f. Censure ecclésiastique par laquelle on est retranché de la communion de l Église. Excommunication majeure, Celle qui retranche entièrement de la communion de l Église, et de toute communion avec les fidèles. Excommunication mineure, Celle… …
15EXCOMMUNICATION — n. f. Censure ecclésiastique par laquelle on est retranché de la communion de l’église, Excommunication majeure, Celle qui retranche entièrement de la communion de l’église et de toute communion avec les fidèles. Excommunication mineure, Celle… …
16excommunication — n. to decree, order, pronounce (an) excommunication * * * [ˌekskəmjuːnɪ keɪʃ(ə)n] order pronounce (an) excommunication to decree …
17Excommunication — 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… …
18excommunication — 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… …
19excommunication — 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… …
20excommunication — This word (from the Latin ex, meaning from or out of, and communio, meaning sharing ) refers to the exclusion of a person from communion. Excommunication is a severe ecclesiastical penalty, which is imposed or incurred for committing a serious …
