Thesaurus: excommunicate

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1. a. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
2. n. One excommunicated.
3. v. t. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
4. v. t. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
5. v. exclude from a church or a religious community
6. v. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
7. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n. One excommunicated. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak. 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.
8. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.-- n.
9. v:100 v. exclude from a church or a religious community v. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree