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.
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n.
One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
Shak.
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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.
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