| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To ban.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb excommunicate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (excommunicate) | 1. Exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner".[Wordnet]. 2. Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.[Wordnet]. 3. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.[Websters]. 4. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: excommunicating, excommunicated, excommunicates, excommunicater, excommunicaters, excommunicatingly and excommunicatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXCOMMUNICATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1646. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXCOMMUNICATING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Expelling from the communion of a church, and depriving of spiritual advantages, by an ecclesiastical sentence or decree.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of excommunicate. (references) | ||
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