EXCOMMUNICATE

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

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Etymology

Adjective

excommunicate (not comparable)

Excommunicated.

Noun

excommunicate (plural excommunicates)

A person so excluded.

Verb

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.

Synonyms

• disfellowship

• takfir

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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