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

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)

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