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(), 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. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak. Ex°commu"nicate (), 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. 2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Milton. スポンサード リンク
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