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Webster 1913 Edition
Excommunicate
Ex′com-mu′ni-cate
,Adj.
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.
Definition 2024
excommunicate
excommunicate
English
Adjective
excommunicate (not comparable)
- Excommunicated.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John IX:
- the iewes had conspyred allredy that yff eny man did confesse that he was Christ, he shulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.
- Shakespeare
- Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John IX:
Noun
excommunicate (plural excommunicates)
- A person so excluded.
Verb
excommunicate (third-person singular simple present excommunicates, present participle excommunicating, simple past and past participle excommunicated)
- (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
-
- (transitive, historical or figuratively) To exclude from any other group; to banish.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
to officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community
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