0 past simple and past participle of excommunicate
1 When the Christian Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church, excommunicates someone, it refuses to give that person communion and does not allow them to be involved in the Church.
Or we cast ourselves outside, as one excommunicated from the church.
Leo excommunicated him and defrocked him in absentia.
Importantly, such love-cumarranged marriages avoid the devastating sanctions of the couple being excommunicated, but in the act of supporting the child, leave the parents open to community sanctions.
Spinoza, some might argue, had been excommunicated for less.
He could have excommunicated people, and gone further in many ways.
They have been anathematised and excommunicated, and told to wash their hands of it and get away from this evil thing.
I should not like to be excommunicated from my beloved movement.
People are excommunicated automatically only if they are definitely insane.
