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excommunicative, a.|ɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪv| [f. excommunicate v. + -ive.] a. Characterized by the refusal of communion. b. Containing a sentence of excommunication. c. Also of persons: Disposed or eager to excommunicate.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 166 No other Church acts on so narrow and excommunicative a principle. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) I. ii. iv. 68 Thomas à Becket..coming home excommunicative. 1876Contemp. Rev. XXVIII. 65 There was in existence an excommunicative decree against comedians. |