excommunicate
verb
• officially exclude (someone) from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
• "Martin Luther was excommunicated by the Pope"
excommunicate
adjective
• excommunicated.
• "an excommunicate bishop"
excommunicate
noun
• an excommunicated person.
• "the arrest of excommunicates"
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).
