What's the difference between excommunicate and significavit?
Excommunicate
Definition:
(a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
(n.) One excommunicated.
(v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
(v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Example Sentences:
(1) If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate.” Australian celebrities have not held back either.
(2) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
(3) A leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships.
(4) There is also a disagreement over the the fate of eight “illegal” bishops appointed by officials in China, some of whom have been excommunicated by the Vatican.
(5) Mr Balestrieri, who founded an organisation last June with the express purpose of seeking Mr Kerry's excommunication, was unrepentant.
(6) It is the most progressive constitution in the Arab region, enshrining women’s rights, freedom of belief, conscience, and worship, and banning incitement to violence and religious excommunication.
(7) Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, who was excommunicated from the Church of Uganda for his opposition to homophobia, said: "I condemn it in very strong terms because it shows there's a lot of misinformation, misunderstanding, I could say ignorance about homosexuality.
(8) The Catholic Church in 1869 punished with excommunication the aborting woman and the provider and in 1895, condemned explicitly and publicly any therapeutic abortion.
(9) The town council of Lutherstadt Wittenberg recommended Pussy Riot for the national prize named in honour of Martin Luther, who nailed his 95 theses to a church door in 1517 and was excommunicated by the Catholic church when he refused to retract them.
(10) A headline in the rightwing Roman daily Il Tempo said “The pope excommunicates Marino.” But the pope’s apparent displeasure with Marino became even more evident when an Italian radio programme, La Zanzara (The Mosquito), made a prank call on Tuesday to a high-ranking Vatican official to inquire about the Marino controversy.
(11) Just days after Pope Francis made his strongest condemnation of the mafia, telling those who engaged in organised crime that they were excommunicated in all but name, the incident on Monday was interpreted as an act of apparent defiance to the Catholic leader and reaffirmation of the mafia's power.
(12) If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I'll auto-excommunicate.
(13) Despite threats of excommunication from cardinals and bishops, a privately devout Catholic prime minister is on the verge of introducing limited abortion into Ireland for the first time in the Republic's existence.
(14) He did it again during the debate on 3 March: asked about his political excommunication by Mitt Romney, he chose to pivot and talk about … trade.
(15) The process The conclave is a highly secret affair, with the cardinal electors confined to their Vatican guesthouse when not deliberating in the Sistine chapel, and any leaking punishable by automatic excommunication.
(16) In 2001, the church reaffirmed Tolstoy's excommunication, and conservative Russian Orthodox thinkers have even placed Tolstoy's works on a blacklist.
(17) If that makes Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, I’ll auto-excommunicate.
(18) The attempt to discredit John Kerry among his fellow Catholics intensified yesterday when a rightwing activist claimed to have Vatican support for his excommunication.
(19) Sistani also ordered the fighters not to excommunicate their opponents in the battlefield in order to justify killing them, and to protect all of Iraq’s minorities.
(20) A Vatican edict in the 1960s threatened to excommunicate anyone breaking secrecy on child sex allegations, and guaranteed that ever more children continued to suffer.
Significavit
Definition:
(n.) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church.