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excommunication 音標拼音: [ ,ɛkskəmj ,unək'eʃən] n. 逐出教會 逐出教會 excommunication n 1: the state of being excommunicated [ synonym: { excommunication}, { exclusion}, { censure}] 2: the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society [ synonym: { excommunication}, { excision}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] EXCOMMUNICATION, eccl. law. An ecclesiastical sentence, pronounced by a spiritual judge against a Christian man, by which he is excluded from the body of the church, and disabled to bring any action, or sue any person in the common law courts. Bac. Ab. h. t.; Co. Litt. 133- 4. In early times it was the most frequent and most severe method of executing ecclesiastical censure, although proper to be used, said Justinian, ( Nov. 123,) only upon grave occasions. The effect of it was to remove the excommunicated " person not only from the sacred rites but from the society of men. In a certain sense it interdicted the use of fire and water, like the punishment spoken of by Caesar, ( lib, 6 de Bell. Gall.). as inflicted by the Druids. Innocent IV. called it the nerve of ecclesiastical discipline. On repentance, the excommunicated person was absolved and received again to communion. These are said to be the powers of binding and loosing the keys of the kingdom of heaven. This kind of punishment seems to have been adopted from the Roman usage of interdicting the use of fire and water. Fr. Duaren, De Sacris Eccles. Ministeriis, lib. 1, cap. 3. See Ridley' s View of the Civil. and Ecclesiastical Law, 245, 246, 249.
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