bell, book and candle

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英文释义

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  1. An expression denoting excommunication by anathema according to a rite of the Latin Church.
    — I am afraid Jim Crow was a hardened sinner, and, alas! we had no one on board duly qualified to do for him with "bell, book and candle" what had been done ages before to his ancestor at Rheims.
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