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One who excommunicates.

. A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [Obs.] Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.

Beyond the material world. "An extramundane being." Bp. Warburton.

A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Sterne.

Unclean. [R.] Burton.

Uncleanness; filthness. [R.] W. Montagu.

Exempt; protected by inoculation. -- Im*mu"nize, v. t.

ligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.

The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted.

Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv.

Not communicated or imparted. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. C. Buchanan. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ti…

Lying or situated beneath the world.

To intercommunicate. [Obs.]

Capable of being mutually communicated.

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

Mutual communication. Owen.

Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.

Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton.