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Definition of Excommunicate
1. Verb. Exclude from a church or a religious community. "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
Generic synonyms: Exclude, Keep Out, Shut, Shut Out
Antonyms: Communicate
Derivative terms: Excommunication, Excommunication
2. Verb. Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.
Generic synonyms: Boot Out, Drum Out, Expel, Kick Out, Oust, Throw Out
Derivative terms: Excommunication
Definition of Excommunicate
1. a. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
2. v. t. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
Definition of Excommunicate
1. Adjective. Excommunicated. ¹
2. Noun. A person so excluded. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To exclude from any other group; to banish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Excommunicate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Excommunicate
Literary usage of Excommunicate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"They may Excommunicate, aa appeareth 1 Cor. 5. 1 Tim. 1. and that for open and
great Crimes, whereby the Church is offended : and for such ('rimes as the ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"R. 1 Rol. 174. (В 2.) What ought to be done previous. — A certificate of the
contempt. — By whom it shall be made. Before the writ of excommunicate ..."
3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"The bishops of Hereford, St. David's, Westminister ; doctors Day, Coren, Leighton,
Cox, Symmons, say, that laymen may excommunicate, if they be appointed by ..."
4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... the former of whom did excommunicate the latter, and caused his ... though himself,
an excommunicate, was present, which is contrary to the Canon, ..."
5. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... see Note. expatriate: expel. expense: sumptuary. spec, outcast (rare),
excommunicate, dis- parish, unchurch, drum (used with "out"; esp. mil. ..."
6. The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564 by Henry Gee (1898)
"In accordance with this notice the Court of Chancery then issued a writ de
excommunicate ... who then arrested and imprisoned the excommunicate person. ..."
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