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

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