Meaning Of The Word Excommunicate

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excommunicate
verb: If a Roman Catholic or member of the Orthodox Church is excommunicated, it is publicly and officially stated that the person is no longer allowed to be a member of the Church. This is a punishment for some very great wrong that they have done.

excommunicate in American English
excommunicated
to exclude, by an act of ecclesiastical authority, from the sacraments, rights, and privileges of a church; censure by cutting off from communion with a church
adjective: cut off from communion with a church; excommunicated
noun: an excommunicated person
transitive verb: to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence

excommunicate in British English
adjective: having incurred such a sentence
noun: an excommunicated person
verb: to sentence (a member of the Church) to exclusion from the communion of believers and from the privileges and public prayers of the Church

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