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Excommunicate
Definitions
- 1 Excommunicated. archaic, not-comparable
"[…]the iewes had conſpyred allredy that yff eny man did confeſſe that he was Chriſt / he ſhulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge."
- 1 An excommunicated person.
- 1 To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community. transitive
"“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It’s absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain."
- 2 exclude from a church or a religious community wordnet
- 3 To exclude from any other group; to banish. figuratively, historical, transitive
"Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women."
- 4 oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree wordnet
Etymology
From Ecclesiastical Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“excommunicate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + communicate.
From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”). See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumian.
From a substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
See also for "excommunicate"
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