Definition of "excommunicatory" [excommunicatory]

• Relating to or causing excommunication.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "After a year of silence, Saladin received a further communication, a letter of forgiveness that was in all particulars harder to take than the earlier, excommunicatory thunderbolt."
• "In 1568, Erastus wrote his celebrated "Theses" against what he called the "excommunicatory fever", which we shall discuss presently."
• "He had reviled “the Church,” and they at once caught “the excommunicatory fever.”"