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Meaning of 'excommunicate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Excommunicate [ a.]
- Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
2 . Excommunicate [ n.]
- One excommunicated.
3 . Excommunicate [ v. t.]
- To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
- To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

Meaning of 'excommunicate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . excommunicate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- exclude from a church or a religious community
Example in sentence:
  • The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner

Nearby Words:

excalceate excalceation excalfaction excalfactive excalfactory excalibur excamb excambie excambion excambium

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