Excommunicate
Excommunicate , adjective
[Latin excommunicatus, past participle of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.
Excommunicate , transitive verb
1.
To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
2.
To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Martin the Fifth... was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books.