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

Yes, there are exquisite fools, who always go about with a quiverful of mighty, excommunicatory utterances, ready to shoot down any one who shows freely that there are matters in which their judgment is not taken into account.

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Sir John was of the excommunicatory party.

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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.

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

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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."

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