Definitions for: Excommunicate


[v] exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
[v] oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree



Webster (1913) Definition: Ex"com*mu"ni*cate, a. [L. excommunicatus, p. p.
of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See
Communicate.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. --
n. 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.

Synonyms: curse

Antonyms: communicate

See Also: boot out, drum out, exclude, expel, keep out, kick out, oust, shut, shut out, throw out

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