| a. | 1. | Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. |
| v. t. | 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. |
| Verb | 1. | excommunicate - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" Synonyms: curse Antonyms: communicate - administer communion; in church |
| 2. | excommunicate - oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree |
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