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escumengement (s.xiiim)
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escumengement (s.xiiim)

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escomengement,  escomingement,  escommengement;  escumeignement,  escumengiement,  escumingement;  excomenjement,  excommengement,  excumengement  (acomingement)  
  FEW:  excommunicare 3,279b Gdf:  escomengement 1 3,416a GdfC: ∅ TL: escomengement 3,951 DEAF:  escomengier (escomengement)  / escomeniier (escomenïement)  DMF:  excommengement  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED:  excomengemment n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1eccl.excommunication, banishment from the church: 
( s.xiiim; MS: c.1300 )  par excumengement [...] Sont desevré [...] Hors del commun de seint eglise  Dial Jul 1921
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  il [le] fist mettre hors de l’eglise par escomengement a tort et encountre la prohibicion  Nov Narr 129
( 1340-41 ) si nuly soit desobeisaunt de cele houre, nous les denuncioms estre cheyew en la dit sentence d'escumengement, quiele sentence est solempnement confermee par l'apostoille  GRANDISSON ii 944
( 1361 ) sentences d’excomeniement (l. d'escomenjement) et censure de sainte l’eglise  Lett Rois 148
2banishment, outlawry: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Cest escumengement Dieux lui (=Cain) dona en sa maleiceon  TREVET Cron1 4.1

See also:

comenge  escumengable  escumenge  escumengément  escumenger  escumunation  escumunicatiun  escumuniement  escumuner 
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acomingement