excommunicatory

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

adjective

1. relating to or causing excommunication.

Word History and Origins

Origin of excommunicatory¹

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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He had reviled “the Church,” and they at once caught “the excommunicatory fever.”

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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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