Word Meanings - EXCOMMUNION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

. A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.

Related words: (words related to EXCOMMUNION)

• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• SHUTTLEWISE
  Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle.
• SHUTTERED
  Furnished with shutters.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• UTMOST
  1. Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge. Spenser. We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• 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. Note:
• COMMUNION
  1. The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone. 2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes,
• SHUTTLECORK
  See SHUTTLECOCK
• SHUTTLE
  OE. schitel a bolt of a door, AS. scyttes; all from AS. sceótan to shoot; akin to Dan. skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. skyttel, 1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the
• JUDICATURE
  1. The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice. The honor of the judges in their judicature is the king's honor. Bacon. 2. A court of justice; a judicatory. South.
• ECCLESIASTICAL
  Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts. Every circumstance of ecclesiastical order and discipline was an abomination.
• SHUTTER
  1. One who shuts or closes. 2. A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind. 3. A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind,
• SHUTTLECOCK
  A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• EXCOMMUNION
  . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
• POSTCOMMUNION
  The concluding portion of the communion service.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• ADJUDICATURE
  Adjudication.
• ANTECOMMUNION
  A name given to that part of the Anglican liturgy for the communion, which precedes the consecration of the elements.
• UNSHUTTER
  To open or remove the shutters of. T. Hughes.
• OUTMOST
  Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.
• NONCOMMUNION
  Neglect or failure of communion.