Excommunicate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To deprive of the right of church membership by ecclesiastical authority.
  • v. To exclude by or as if by decree from membership or participation in a group.
  • n. A person who has been excommunicated.
  • adj. Having been excommunicated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Excommunicated.
  • n. A person so excluded.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
  • v. exclude from a church or a religious community
  • Verb Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    expel    kick out    boot out    drum out    oust    throw out    shut out    keep out    shut    exclude   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    excommunicated    interdict    expel    curse    unchurch   
    Rhyme
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    Same Context
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    disjoin    facto    boldnesse    ownerless    road agent    shirker    diche    abbat    mixt    howbeit