Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-MI-NA'TION, n. [L. comminatio; con and minatio, a threatening, from minor, to threaten. See Menace.]

1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.
2. The recital of God's threatening 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. – Encyc.