'Excommunicate' definitions:
Definition of 'excommunicate'
From: WordNet
verb
Exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" [syn: excommunicate, unchurch, curse] [ant: communicate]
verb
Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
Definition of 'Excommunicate'
From: GCIDE
- Excommunicate \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. -- n. One excommunicated. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Excommunicate'
From: GCIDE
- Excommunicate \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. [1913 Webster]
- Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. --Miltin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excommunicate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accurse,
- anathematize,
- attaint,
- ban,
- banish,
- blackball,
- blacklist,
- blaspheme,
- blast,
- break,
- bring home to,
- bust,
- cashier,
- cast out,
- censure,
- condemn,
- confound,
- convict,
- curse,
- cut,
- damn,
- darn,
- deconsecrate,
- defrock,
- denounce,
- denunciate,
- deport,
- depose,
- dethrone,
- disbar,
- discrown,
- disenthrone,
- disfellowship,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- doom,
- drum out,
- exclude,
- execrate,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- extradite,
- find guilty,
- fugitate,
- fulminate against,
- give the gate,
- hex,
- imprecate,
- kick upstairs,
- liquidate,
- ostracize,
- oust,
- outlaw,
- overthrow,
- pass sentence on,
- penalize,
- pension,
- pension off,
- pronounce judgment,
- pronounce sentence,
- proscribe,
- purge,
- read out of,
- relegate,
- remove,
- remove from office,
- retire,
- rusticate,
- send to Coventry,
- sentence,
- snub,
- spurn,
- strip of office,
- strip of rank,
- superannuate,
- suspend,
- throw a whammy,
- thrust out,
- thunder against,
- transport,
- unchurch,
- unfrock,
- unsaddle,
- unseat,
- unthrone