Definition of Commenation
Com`mi*na"tion (?), n. [L.
comminatio, from comminari to threaten; com-
+ minari to threaten: cf. F. commination.]
1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation
of punishment or vengeance.
With terrible comminations to all them that
did resist.
Foxe.
Those thunders of commination.
I. Taylor.
2. An office in the liturgy of the Church
of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's
anger and judgments against sinners.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
English
- a formal denunciation; especially one threatening divine punishment, read out in church on Ash Wednesday
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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