About The Word Excommunicate
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Excommunicate
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What's The Definition Of 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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Excommunicate: curse Related Terms | Find terms related to Excommunicate: accurse | anathematize | attaint | ban | banish | blackball | blacklist | blaspheme | blast | break | bring home to | bust | cashier | cast out | censure | condemn | confound | convict | curse | cut | damn | darn | deconsecrate | defrock | denounce | denunciate | deport | depose | dethrone | disbar | discrown | disenthrone | disfellowship | dismiss | displace | doom | drum out | exclude | execrate | exile | expatriate | expel | extradite | find guilty | fugitate | fulminate against | give the gate | hex | imprecate | kick upstairs | liquidate | ostracize | oust | outlaw | overthrow | pass sentence on | penalize | pension | pension off | pronounce judgment | pronounce sentence | proscribe | purge | read out of | relegate | remove | remove from office | retire | rusticate | send to Coventry | sentence | snub | spurn | strip of office | strip of rank | superannuate | suspend | throw a whammy | thrust out | thunder against | transport | unchurch | unfrock | unsaddle | unseat | unthrone See Also | boot out | drum out | exclude | expel | keep out | kick out | oust | shut | shut out | throw out Excommunicate In Webster's Dictionary \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. |
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