excommunicate. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

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excommunicate

SYLLABICATION:	ex·com·mu·ni·cate
PRONUNCIATION:	ksk-myn-kt
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: ex·com·mu·ni·cat·ed, ex·com·mu·ni·cat·ing, ex·com·mu·ni·cates 1. To deprive of the right of church membership by ecclesiastical authority. 2. To exclude by or as if by decree from membership or participation in a group.
NOUN:	(-kt) A person who has been excommunicated.
ADJECTIVE:	(-kt, -kt) Having been excommunicated.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English excommunicaten, from Late Latin excommnicre, excommnict- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin commnicre, to share (from commnis, common; see common).
OTHER FORMS:	excom·muni·cative (-ktv, -k-) , excom·muni·ca·tory (-k-tôr, -tr) —ADJECTIVE excom·muni·cator —NOUN


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