excommunicate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: excommunicate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for excommunicate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
excommunicate v exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" Synonym(s): excommunicate, unchurch, curse Antonym(s): communicate oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Excommunicate \Ex"commu"nicate\, 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`commu"nicate\, 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.