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Excommunicate - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Excommunicate : (verb)
1: exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay
priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
[syn: curse] [ant: communicate]
2: oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Excommunicate : \Ex"com*mu"ni*cate\, a. [L. excommunicatus, p. p.
of communicare to excommunicate; ex out _ communicare. See
Communicate.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. --
n. One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Excommunicate : \Ex`com*mu"ni*cate\, v. 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Excommunicate |
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gracels: .@emptywheel Love 2 do something re Lieberman. Unfortunately we can't Excommunicate. |
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frloren: New blog post: Excommunicate and Anathema! http://www.overheardinthesacristy.net/?p=7364 |
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Jess90_: Failure to Excommunicate- @RelientK |
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