excommunication
31Excommunication chez les Témoins de Jéhovah — Témoins de Jéhovah Généralités Mouvement chrétien millénariste, né aux États Unis au XIXe siècle Corps dirigeant : Collège Central Histoire Ancêtre : Étudiants de la Bible fond …
32Excommunication of Margaret McBride — The excommunication of Margaret McBride occurred following the sanctioning by the Religious Sister in November 2009 of an abortion at a Roman Catholic hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Her decision and her subsequent excommunication aroused… …
33Excommunication des acteurs — L excommunication des acteurs fait référence à la coutume catholique principalement française et plus particulièrement parisienne consistant à excommunier les acteurs de théâtre en vertu d une stricte observance des textes canoniques, du… …
34Excommunication by inch of candle — Candle Can dle, n. [OE. candel, candel, AS, candel, fr. L. candela a (white) light made of wax or tallow, fr. cand[ e]re to be white. See {Candid}, and cf. {Chandler}, {Cannel}, {Kindle}.] 1. A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a… …
35excommunication — noun Date: 15th century 1. an ecclesiastical censure depriving a person of the rights of church membership 2. exclusion from fellowship in a group or community • excommunicative adjective …
36excommunication — noun The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially 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 …
37Excommunication — A sentence of the Church forbidding a person to celebrate or receive the sacraments, much as an *outlaw was placed outside the law and its protection. Cf. Interdict …
38Excommunication — An exclusion from the communion of the faithful, especially being deprived of the Holy Communion. See Anathema …
39EXCOMMUNICATION — an ecclesiastical punishment inflicted upon heretics and offenders against the Church laws and violators of the moral code; was formulated in the Christian Church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It varied in severity according to the degree of… …
40Excommunication — An ancient discipline of the Church whereby a person for cause was cut off from all the privileges of the Church. This discipline has practically fallen into abeyance, people for the most part excommunicate themselves. In the English Prayer… …
