Definition of Excommunicative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Excommunicative

excogitations
excogitative
excogitator
excommune
excommuned
excommunes
excommunicable
excommunicant
excommunicants
excommunicate
excommunicated
excommunicates
excommunicating
excommunication
excommunications
excommunicative
excommunicator
excommunicators
excommuning
excommunion
exconjugant
excoriable
excoriate
excoriated
excoriates
excoriating
excoriatingly
excoriation
excoriations
excorticate

Literary usage of Excommunicative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Authentic Report of the Theological Discussion Between the Rev. W. Cooke by William Cooke, Joseph Barker (1845)
"And why did Christ thus become a curse 1 Why did he submit to the curse or excommunicative sentence of the Jewish law 1 Of course, that "he might be a ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"... some twenty years there was in existence an excommunicative decree against comedians. The refusal of Christian burial to the celebrated actress, Mile. ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1905)
"But this method of punishing one's enemy, when the courts could not deal with the case, by pronouncing an excommunicative c>irse upon him, was capable of ..."

4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... of the Holy Koman Empire waiting, three days, in the snow, to kiss the foot of excommunicative Hildebrand), has impressed itself on all memories ! ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"The excommunicative decree against comedians was not then annulled, but any priest who had attempted to put it in force on that occasion would have run ..."

6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... Kaiser of Holy Roman Empire waiting, three days, in the snow, to kiss the foot of excommunicative Hildebrand), has impressed itself on all memories! ..."

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