Search Results for: EXCOMMUNICANT

excommunicato recapiendo (eks-k[schwa]-myoo-ni-kay-toh ri-kap-ee-en-doh). [Latin] Hist. Eccles. law. A writ commanding that an excommunicant — who had been committed to prison for obstinacy but who was unlawfully freed before agreeing to obey the church’s authority — should be found, retaken, and imprisoned again.