EXCOMMUNICATE

a. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.

2.
a.

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

3.
v.

To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

4.
v.

To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin.