excommunicate – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
excommunicate
v.
exclude from the rites of the church, banish, expel, ostracize
Excommunication
Excommunication is an institutional act of religious
censure used to deprive, suspend, or limit membership in a religious community or to restrict certain rights within it, in particular reception of the
sacraments. Some
Protestants use the term
disfellowship instead.
excommunicate
Verb
1. exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
(synonym) curse
(antonym) communicate
(hypernym) exclude, keep out, shut out, shut
(derivation) excommunication, exclusion, censure
2. oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree
(hypernym) oust, throw out, drum out, boot out, kick out, expel
(verb-group) curse
(derivation) excommunication, exclusion, censure
excommunicate
Czas.
ekskomunikować
Excommunicate
(v. t.)
To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
(v. t.)
To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
(n.)
One excommunicated.
(a.)
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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