\Com`mi*na"tion\, n. [L. comminatio, from comminari
to threaten; com- + minari to threaten: cf. F. commination.]
1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or
   vengeance.

         With terrible comminations to all them that did
         resist.                               --Foxe.

         Those thunders of commination.        --I. Taylor.

2. 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.