Meaning of EXCOMMUNICATE
Pronunciation: | | `eksku'myoonu`keyt
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WordNet Dictionary |
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- [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
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| Synonyms: | | curse |
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| Antonyms: | | communicate | |
| See Also: | | boot out, drum out, exclude, expel, keep out, kick out, oust, shut, shut out, throw out | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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