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Webster 1913 Edition

Excommunicate

Ex′com-mu′ni-cate

,
Adj.
[L.
excommunicatus
, p. p. of
communicare
to excommunicate;
ex out + communicare
. See
Communicate
.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
–
Noun.
One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and
excommunicate
.
Shakespeare

Exˊcom-mu′ni-cate

,
Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Excommunicate

EXCOMMU'NICATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. ex and communico.] To expel from communion; to eject from the communion of the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence, and deprive of spiritual advantages; as, to excommunicate notorious offenders.

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