v. To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
v. To exclude from any other group; to banish.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
v. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
v. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Eccles., to cut off by an ecclesiastical sentence, either from the sacraments of the church or from all fellowship and intercourse with its members. See excommunication.
Hence To expel from and deprive of the privileges of membership in any association.
To prohibit on pain of excommunication.
Cut off from communion; excommunicated.
n. One who is excommunicated; one cut off from any privilege.
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v. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
v. exclude from a church or a religious community
Word Usage
"This is it that the faithful stood in fear of, as long as they stood excommunicate, that is to say, in an estate wherein their sins were not forgiven."