excommunicate, unchurch, curse
(verb) exclude from a church or a religious community; “The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner”
excommunicate
(verb) oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
Source: WordNet® 3.1
excommunicate (not comparable)
Excommunicated.
excommunicate (plural excommunicates)
A person so excluded.
excommunicate (third-person singular simple present excommunicates, present participle excommunicating, simple past and past participle excommunicated)
(transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
(transitive, historical or figurative) To exclude from any other group; to banish.
• disfellowship
• takfir
Source: Wiktionary
Ex"com*mu"ni*cate, a. Etym: [L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Definition: Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
– n.
Definition: One excommunicated. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.
Ex`com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 October 2024
(noun) a high-crowned black cap (usually made of felt or sheepskin) worn by men in Turkey and Iran and the Caucasus
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
