excommunicatory

American  

[eks-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˌɛks kəˈmyu nɪ kəˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

adjective

1. relating to or causing excommunication.

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Etymology

Origin of excommunicatory

First recorded in 1675–85; excommunicate + -ory ¹

Example Sentences

At length, on May 13, the excommunicatory brief was despatched from Rome, directed against a "certain Fra Girolamo Savonarola who had disseminated pernicious doctrines to the scandal and grief of simple souls."

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters by Mee, Arthur

Erastus writes:— “Some men were seized on by a certain excommunicatory fever, which they did adorn with the name of ‘ecclesiastical discipline.’

From John Knox and the Reformation by Lang, Andrew

The excommunicatory Priests give new trouble in the Maine and Loire; La Vendee, nor Cathelineau the wool-dealer, has not ceased grumbling and rumbling.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

The supreme church council issued an excommunicatory order against them; the police broke up their meetings; and forty of the Free Congregations were closed in Prussia alone.

From History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology by Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher)