• (n.) 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. • (n.) A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/commination/
Com`mi·na'tion noun [ Latin comminatio , from comminari to threaten; com- + minari to threaten: confer French commination .] 1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance. « With terrible comminations to all them that ... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/116
Commination is an office in the liturgy of the Church of England, appointed to be read on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, containing a recital of God's supposed anger and threatenings towards sinners. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/AC1.HTM
a threat of punishment or vengeance. · a denunciation. · (in the Church of England) a penitential office read on Ash Wednesday in which God's anger and judgments are proclaimed against sinners. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/commination