Excommunicate

[,ekskə'mjuːnɪkeɪt]

Definition

(verb.) exclude from a church or a religious community; 'The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner'.

(verb.) oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.

Typist: Moira--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

(n.) One excommunicated.

(v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

(v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

Edited by Jacqueline

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Dismiss or expel (from the church), denounce, proscribe, anathematize, expel from fellowship.

Checker: Yale

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Exclude, banish, bar, eject, blackball

ANT:Admit, readmit, inaugurate, enroll

Checked by Harlan

Definition

v.t. to put out of or expel from the communion of the church: to deprive of church privileges.—adj. Excommun′icable.—ns. Excommunicā′tion act of expelling from the communion of a church—(Milt.) Excommun′ion.—adj. Excommun′icatory of or pertaining to excommunication.

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