excommunicate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”). By surface analysis, ex- + communicate. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumian.
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edit- Adjective and noun
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Adjective
editexcommunicate (not comparable)
- Excommunicated.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John ix:[22], folio cxxxiiij, verso:
- […] the iewes had conſpyred allredy that yff eny man did confeſſe that he was Chriſt / he ſhulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 9, column 2:
- Thou ſhalt ſtand curſt, and excommunicate […]
Noun
editexcommunicate (plural excommunicates)
- An excommunicated person.
- Synonyms: excommunicant, excommunicatee
Verb
editexcommunicate (third-person singular simple present excommunicates, present participle excommunicating, simple past and past participle excommunicated)
- (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 294:
- “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It’s absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
- (transitive, historical or figurative) To exclude from any other group; to banish.
- 1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5:
- Samois includes celebate [sic], heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.
- 1987, InfoWorld, volume 9, number 37, page 46:
- Although our Macs served us well, in those early, dark years Macintosh users were effectively excommunicated by the computer establishment.
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editto officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community
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