01 a. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
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Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.“Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.” — Shak.
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3 senses · 2 variants
Webster, 1913
Excommunicate
02 v. t. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
imp. & p. p.
Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Excommunicating
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To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
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To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.“Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books.” — Miltin.