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Definition of Excommunicate

Excommunicate
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.
Excommunicate
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.

Meaning of Excommunicate from wikipedia

- shunning among other religious groups. The Amish have also been known to excommunicate members that were either seen or known for breaking rules, or questioning...
- This is a list of some of the more notable people excommunicated by the Catholic Church. It includes only excommunications acknowledged or imposed by a...
- Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who have either been excommunicated or have resigned from the church – as well as of individuals no longer...
- to excommunicate". The Jewish Journal. April 4, 2019. in 1918 the Odessa rabbis excommunicated Leon Trotsky "Prof. Mordecai M. Kaplan "excommunicated" by...
- in English ecclesiastical law, issued out of chancery, that a man be excommunicated for forty days, and imprisoned until he submits himself to the authority...
- that the Catholic Church can inflict, it supposes a grave offense. The excommunicated person is considered by Catholic ecclesiastical authority as an exile...
- Only a few dozen cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church have been excommunicated by the Catholic Church. A cardinal is a Roman Catholic priest, deacon...
- Councils, and nominally, by the Holy Council of Trent, and if need be, We excommunicate and anathematize them again, declaring them by the very fact, deprived...
- as king of Sicily, despite Henry VI's wife's claim. He threatened to excommunicate Henry VI for wrongfully keeping King Richard I of England imprisoned...
- issued, the LDS Church began to excommunicate members who entered into new polygamist marriages. This resulted in excommunicated members forming their own churches...