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Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from the communion of the church and the company of the faithful, and was rendered incapable of any legal act; by the lesser he was merely debarred from participation in the Sacraments.See No. 33 of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as to avoiding an excommunicated person 'until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church by a judge that hath authority thereto'; Canon 112, to the effect that the minister and churchwardens shall yearly within 40 days after Easter exhibit to the Bishop or his Chancellor the names and surnames of all the parishioners, as well men as women, which being of the age of sixteen years received not the Communion at Easter before; and Jenkins v. Cook, (1876) 1 PD 80, in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council admonished a vicar to refrain from refusing to administer the Communion to a parishioner....
Excommune
To exclude from participation in to excommunicate...
Excommunicate
Excommunicated interdicted from the rites of the church...
Excommunicator
One who excommunicates...
Excommunicable
Liable or deserving to be excommunicated making excommunication possible or proper...
Significavit
Significavit, a writ issuing out of the Chancery upon certificate given by the ordinary of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the keeping him in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the Church. See 53 Geo. 3, c. 127, and Ex parte Dale, (1881) 6 QBD 381, in which case Lord Penzance in 1880 issued a significavit against the Rev. Mr. Dale for disobedience to his inhibition.Also, another writ, addressed to the judges, commanding them to stay any suit depending between such and such parties by reason of an excommunication alleged against the plaintiff, etc., Reg. Brev. 7....
Excommunicant
One who has been excommunicated...
Excommunication
The act of communicating or ejecting esp an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is for the time cast out of the communication of the church exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual...
Excommunion
A shutting out from communion excommunication...
Reaggravation
The last monitory published after three admonitions and before the last excommunication...
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