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   ex·com·mu·ni·cate

   verb

   • 1. officially exclude (someone) from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church: "Martin Luther was excommunicated by the Pope"

   adjective

   • 1. excommunicated: "all violators were to be pronounced excommunicate"

   noun

   • 1. an excommunicated person: "the arrest of excommunicates"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin excommunicat- ‘excluded from communication with the faithful’, from the verb excommunicare, from ex- ‘out’ + Latin communis ‘common to all’, on the pattern of Latin communicare (see communicate).

   Derivatives

   • 1. excommunicative adjective
   • 2. excommunicatory adjective

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