Excommunication

Excommunication
Exclusion from the membership of the church or from communion with faithful Christians. Those judged "tolerati" could still mingle with the faithful, but those "vitandi" could not and were exiled. See also Anathema.
A censure imposed by church authority which excludes those subjected to it from holy communion and imposes on them other deprivations and disabilities; in the heavier form of this censure, the transgressor was forbidden any intercourse with fellow Christians and deprived of all rights and privileges in the church
♦ The formal suspension or expulsion of a person from the communion of the church; in the Middle Ages, excommunication had serious social and legal consequences.
(Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History, 362)
♦ Exclusion from communion of Church as method of enforcing jusdgements of church courts.
(Sayles, George O. The King's Parliament of England, 144)
♦ A sentence (in various forms and different degrees), pronounced in a court or by a bishop, which excluded the offenders to whom it applied from the sacraments and church services, or in the case of greater excommunication from law and society, until absolution was granted.
(Heath, Peter. Church and Realm, 1272-1461, 362)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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