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1. (v.t.) excommunicate
to cut off from communion or membership, esp. from the sacraments and fellowship of the church by ecclesiastical sentence.
2. (n.) excommunicate
an excommunicated person.
3. (adj.) excommunicate
excommunicated.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < LL excommūnicātus, ptp. of excommūnicāre)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) excommunicate, unchurch, curse
exclude from a church or a religious community
"The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
2. (verb) excommunicate
oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
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1. (adj) excommunicate
excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church
2. (noun) excommunicate
one excommunicated
3. (verb) excommunicate
to put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence
4. (verb) excommunicate
to lay under the ban of the church; to interdict
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