0 present 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.
In times like these, when work is almost impossible to get, it is practically excommunicating every married woman from benefit.
However, local church councils responded by excommunicating members who signed the petition.
The kahal even had sufficient authority that it could arrange for individuals to be expelled from synagogues, excommunicating them.
Manasses responded to the abbey's resistance by excommunicating the monks and despoiling their goods.
The church maintains a degree of orthodoxy by excommunicating or disciplining its members who take positions or engage in practices viewed as apostasy.
Over the next year, delegations from the two sides studied the matter and concluded that the anathemas of 1054 were not acts excommunicating churches from one another, but individuals.
Qahals even had sufficient authority that they could arrange for individuals to be expelled from synagogues, excommunicating them.
The confession was so far satisfactory that the churches of the excommunicating council rescinded the actions of that council, one after another voting to resume the relations of fellowship.
