a. [f. as prec. + -ORY.] a. Of or pertaining to excommunication. b. = EXCOMMUNICATIVE c.
a. 1683. Cave, Anc. Ch. Govt., 292. The Excommunicatory letter sent to Acacius himself.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), III. VI. iii. 458. The spiritual death inflicted by the excommunicatory decree of the church at Augsburg.
1884. M. Rule, Eadmeri Historia Novorum, Pref. p. cxi. His passionate deprecation of the excommunicatory sentence which the council of Bari adjudged the Red King to have incurred.
b. 1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. vi. The excommunicatory Priests give new trouble in the Maine and Loire.
