Excommunicate /(?)/

Ex·com·mu·ni·cate

Excommunicate

a.
  1. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
    Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.

Excommunicate

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.