What does "excommunicate" mean?
Excommunicate: To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
Additional senses
- 2.To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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