(n) the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society, Syn.excision
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
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 ]
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 ]
n. [ L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication. ] The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful. [ 1913 Webster ]
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