excommunicatory

[eks-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]

adjective

relating to or causing excommunication.

Origin of excommunicatory

First recorded in 1675–85; excommunicate + -ory¹

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Historical Examples of excommunicatory

He had reviled “the Church,” and they at once caught “the excommunicatory fever.”
John Knox and the Reformation
Andrew Lang