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Excommunicate   /ˌɛkskəmjˈunəkˌeɪt/   Listen
Excommunicate

verb
(past & past part. excommunicated; pres. part. excommunicating)
1.
Exclude from a church or a religious community.  Synonyms: curse, unchurch.  Antonym: communicate.
2.
Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.






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"Excommunicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... due several bulls declaring excommunicate all those who deny them. These contribute nothing new to ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier

... with any one the office of returning thanks in the church after any signal deliverance." But the word has taken quite a different turn of late. To church a person, instead of receiving him into communion, as that term would seem to imply, signifies to deal with an offending member, to excommunicate, or turn ...
— Lectures on Language - As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. • William S. Balch

... a council was held in 1119 A. D. by Calixtus II. in an attempt to reconcile Henry I. and Louis le Gros; and, later, another, to excommunicate another Henry. ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun

... to the poor? Does your minister wear a surplice at the appointed times, yea or no? Does he use the cross in baptism and the ring in marriage?[70] Does your schoolmaster teach without licence of his ordinary under seal, or no? Do you know any person excommunicate in your parish who repairs to church? Do you know anyone ordered by law to do penance, or excommunicate for not doing the same, who still continues unreformed?—by virtue of this strict questioning by the ordinary ...
— The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects • Sedley Lynch Ware

... fire-arms and ammunition. We should in the meanwhile open our chains with the assistance of our servants, and arm all those amongst them who could be trusted; and on the Bishop being informed, that we were ready, he would come out in full canonicals, carrying the holy cross, and excommunicate Theodore and every one who adhered to him, placing under an irrevocable curse all who attempted to arrest him or us. Our party, including Portuguese, natives of Massowah, and messengers, would have amounted to at least twenty-five; the Bishop could bring fifty men, ...
— A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia - With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, - His Country and People • Henry Blanc


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