excommunicate.
To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
Meaning & usage
To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
To exclude from any other group; to banish.
Where this word comes from
From Ecclesiastical Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“excommunicate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + communicate.
Excommunicated.
Where this word comes from
From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”). See -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumian.
An excommunicated person.
Where this word comes from
From a substantivation of the above adjective. See -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
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