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逐出教會

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Excommunication \Ex`com*mu`ni*ca"tion\, n. [L. excommunicatio:
   cf. F. 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: 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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

excommunication
     n 1: the state of being excommunicated [syn: {exclusion}, {censure}]
     2: the act of banishing a member of the Church from the
        communion of believers and the privileges of the Church;
        cutting a person off from a religious society [syn: {excision}]