Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) A substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, or one payment for many, or a specific sum of money for conditional payments or allowances; as, commutation of tithes; commutation of fares; commutation of copyright; commutation of rations..

Commutative :: Commutative (a.) Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.

Commutator :: Commutator (n.) A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction..

Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..

Commute :: Commute (v. i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

Commute :: Commute (v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route..

Commuted :: Commuted (imp. & p. p.) of Commut.

Commuter :: Commuter (n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling..

Commuting :: Commuting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Commut.

Commutual :: Commutual (a.) Mutual; reciprocal; united.

Discommunity :: Discommunity (n.) A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship..

Excommune :: Excommune (v. t.) To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.

Excommunicable :: Excommunicable (a.) Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.

Excommunicant :: Excommunicant (n.) One who has been excommunicated.

Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (n.) One excommunicated.

Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence..

Excommunicate :: Excommunicate (v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

Excommunicated :: Excommunicated (imp. & p. p.) of Excommunicat.

Excommunicating :: Excommunicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excommunicat.

Excommunication :: Excommunication (n.) The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual..

Excommunicator :: Excommunicator (n.) One who excommunicates.

Excommunion :: Excommunion () A shutting out from communion; excommunication.

Incommunicability :: Incommunicability (n.) The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted..

Incommunicable :: Incommunicable (a.) Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others..

Incommunicated :: Incommunicated (a.) Not communicated or imparted.

Incommunicating :: Incommunicating (a.) Having no communion or intercourse with each other.

Incommunicative :: Incommunicative (a.) Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive..

Incommutability :: Incommutability (n.) The quality or state of being incommutable.

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