English dictionary

excommunicate

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Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

adjective

Source: webster1913

exclude from a church or a religious community

verb.communication

Examples
The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner.

Synonyms curse unchurch

Antonyms communicate

Source: WordNet 3.0
oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree

verb.social

Source: WordNet 3.0
To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

verb

Source: webster1913