excommunicate• One influential local bishopwarned that women who soughtabortion would be excommunicated.• The second excommunicated all clergy who did homage to laymen for ecclesiasticalpossessions, as well as those who associated with them afterwards.• You'd have us excommunicated and hangedinside a month.• They say that local fieldworkers now worry about being excommunicated by the Church.• If Miguel were excommunicated, Careta would probably turn his back on him if he saw him on the street.• He was excommunicated from the Pack.• When Ambrose heard of this he excommunicated Theodosius and refused to give him the sacraments until he had done public penance.
Originexcommunicate
(1400-1500)Late Latin past participle of excommunicare, from communicare; → COMMUNICATE