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EXCOMMUNICATING
Verb
excommunicating
present participle of excommunicate
Source: Wiktionary
EXCOMMUNICATE
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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