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Definition of Excommunicating
1. excommunicate [v] - See also: excommunicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excommunicating
Literary usage of Excommunicating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"... to God Himself]. excommunicating subjects being employed by Christ or his
disciples, especially for temporal matters, but the contrary. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Physicians (28 March, 1452) were protected by a letter of the Bishop of Passau
in 1406 excommunicating quacks. The subject-matter taught was confined to ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"He began his pontificate with excommunicating every ecclesiastic who should
receive a benefice from a layman, and every layman by whom such benefice should ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Letters from Rome say that the pope has published a bull, excommunicating all
persons whatsoever that shal usurp or pos- sesse themselves [of] ..."
5. The History of the Life and Acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund by John Strype (1821)
"His letter to the Lord Robert Dudley about his excommunicating of one Sebastian.
His advice to the Secretary concerning his disease. ..."
6. A Run Through Europe by Erastus Cornelius Benedict (1860)
"this subject, in which the Pope was represented as excommunicating and anathematizing
railroads as pestilent and never to be tolerated agents and ..."
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