commination

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COMMINATION, noun 1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. 2. The recital of Gods threatenings on stated days; an office in the Liturgy of the Church of England, appointed to be read on Ash Wednesday or on the first day of Lent.
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