Excommunicate
Pronunciation : Ex"com*mu"ni*cate
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Definition : Defn: Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.
Defn: One excommunicated. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Ex`com*mu"ni*cate
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.
t. [imp. & p. p. Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913