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Brewer's: Excommunication
(1) The greater is exclusion of an individual from the seven sacraments, from every legitimate act, and from all intercourse with the faithful. (2) The lesser excommunication is…The Devil's Dictionary: Excommunication
by Ambrose Bierce EXCESSEXECUTIVEEXCOMMUNICATION -n. This "excommunication" is a word In speech ecclesiastical oft heard, And means the damning, with bell, book and candle, Some…excommunication
(Encyclopedia) excommunication, formal expulsion from a religious body, the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. Where religious and social communities are nearly identical it is attended by…Brewer's: Ipso Facto
Irrespective of all external considerations of right or wrong; absolutely; by the very deed itself. It sometimes means the act itself carries the consequences (as excommunication without…Brewer's: Intercalary
(Latin). Inserted between or amongst others. Thus, an intercalary day is a day foisted in between two others, as the 29th February in leap-year. (See Calends.) “It was the custom with…Brewer's: Exclusion
Bill of Exclusion. A bill to exclude the Duke of York from the throne, on account of his being a Papist. Passed by the Commons, but rejected by the Lords, in 1679; revived in 1681.…Brewer's: Excruciate
(4 syl.). To give one as much pain as crucifying him would do. (Latin, ex crux, where ex is intensitive.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Bell, Book, and Candle
A ceremony in the greater excommunication introduced into the Catholic Church in the eighth century. After reading the sentence a bell is rung, a book closed, and a candle extinguished.…1500–1599 (A.D.) World History
Michelangelo's David (1504) Tasha Vincent Martin Luther (1483–1546) Henry VIII(1491–1547) Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) Rembrandt van…Emmanuel Milingo, 2001 News
Roman Catholic archbishop, renounced his marriage to Korean acupuncturist Maria Sung in August. The couple had been married in a May multiple wedding ceremony by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the…Trending
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