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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 com·mi·na·tion /ˌkɑməˈneʃən/
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Com·mi·na·tion n.
 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 commination
      n 1: prayers proclaiming God's anger against sinners; read in the
           Church of England on Ash Wednesday
      2: a threat of divine punishment or vengeance