Comminationnoun
A formal denunciation; especially one threatening divine punishment.
Comminatoryadjective
Of or pertaining to commination.
Comminationnoun
A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
‘With terrible comminations to all them that did resist.’; ‘Those thunders of commination.’;
Comminatoryadjective
Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms.
Comminationnoun
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.
Comminatoryadjective
containing warning of punishment
Comminationnoun
prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the Church of England on Ash Wednesday
Comminatory
In law, a comminatory is a clause inserted into a law, edict, patent, etc., describing a punishment that is to be imposed on delinquents, which, however, is not in practice executed with the rigor that is conveyed in the description, or not even executed at all. Thus, in some countries, when an exile is enjoined not to return on pain of death, it is deemed a comminatory penalty, since, if he did return, it is not strictly executed, but instead the same threat is laid on him again, which is more than comminatory.
Comminationnoun
a threat of divine punishment or vengeance
