Excommunicate Definition
ĕkskə-myo͝onĭ-kāt
excommunicated, excommunicates, excommunicating
verb
excommunicated, excommunicates, excommunicating
To exclude, by an act of ecclesiastical authority, from the sacraments, rights, and privileges of a church; censure by cutting off from communion with a church.
Webster's New World
To exclude by or as if by decree from membership or participation in a group.
American Heritage
To exclude from any other group; to banish.
Wiktionary
Antonyms:
noun
excommunicates
An excommunicated person.
Webster's New World
adjective
Having been excommunicated.
American Heritage
Origin of Excommunicate
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Middle English excommunicaten from Late Latin excommūnicāre excommūnicāt- Latin ex- ex- Latin commūnicāre to share (from commūnis common common)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”).
From Wiktionary
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