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excommunication

N การ ตัด ออกจาก การ เป็นสมาชิก  การ คว่ำบาตร 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EXCOMMUNICATION

n.The act of ejecting from a church; expulsion from the communion of a church, and deprivation of its rights, privileges and advantages; an ecclesiastical penalty or punishment inflicted on offenders. Excommunication is an ecclesiastical interdict, of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension of the offender from partaking of the eucharist; the greater, is an absolute separation and exclusion of the offender from the church and all its rites and advantages.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

EXCOMMUNICATION

Ex `com *mu `ni *ca "tion, n. Etym: [L. excommunicatio: cf. F.excommunication. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.

 

French Dictionary

excommunication

excommunication n. f. nom féminin Exclusion de l ’Église. : Ce sacrilège pourrait entraîner l ’excommunication.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

excommunication

x com m ni c tion 名詞 カトリック U 破門 ; C 破門宣告 .