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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: excommunicate v : exclude from a church or a religious communities [syn: {curse}] [ant: {communicate}]
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