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Penance [fr. p'nitentia, Lat.], an ecclesiastical punishment used in the discipline of the primitive church, which affected the body of the penitent, by which he was obliged to give a public satisfaction to the church for the scandal he had given by his evil example. See the still unrepealed Articuli Cleri, 9 Edw. 2, st. 1, c. 2; Statutes Revised vol. i, at p. 66; also the Introduction to the Commination Service in the Prayer Book....
Penitential
Of or pertaining to penitence or to penance expressing penitence of the nature of penance as the penitential book penitential tears...
Penitentiary
Relating to penance or to the rules and measures of penance...
Qu'sta
Qu'sta, an indulgence or remission of penance, sold by the pope.Means remissions of penance, authorized by the Pope to those who contributed a certain amount to the church. Also termed quesita, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1253....
Penance
Repentance...
Penanceless
Free from penance...
Penitencer
A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases...
Quadragene
An indulgence of forty days corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance...
Excommunication
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....
Fast-day
Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 3, c. 23), and see also the still unrepealed 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3 (printed in the second revised edition of the statutes published by authority in 1888), by which the eves of Christmas Day and other holy days are 'commanded to be fasted,' and arch-bishops, bishops and others are authorized to inquire of every person offending in the premises, and to punish offenders by the censures of the Church, and to enjoin them such penance as shall be to the spiritual judge by his discretion thought meet and convenient. 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 19, however, providing for abstinence from flesh in Lent or on Fridays or Saturdays, which was expressly saved by s. 4 of this Act, has been repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, with many other disused Acts.Fast-days may also be appointed on special occasions by royal proclamati...
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