excommunicate

  • 21excommunicate — verb (T) to punish someone by no longer allowing them to be a member of the Roman Catholic church excommunication noun (C, U) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 22excommunicate — v unchurch, expel, Inf. kick out, cut off, exclude. See exclude(defs.2, 3) …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 23excommunicate — ex·com·mu·ni·cate …

    English syllables

  • 24excommunicate — ex•com•mu•ni•cate v. [[t]ˌɛks kəˈmyu nɪˌkeɪt[/t]] n., adj. [[t] kɪt, ˌkeɪt[/t]] v. cat•ed, cat•ing, n. adj. 1) rel to cut off from communion or membership, esp. from the sacraments and fellowship of the church by ecclesiastical sentence 2) rel an …

    From formal English to slang

  • 25excommunicate — /ɛkskəˈmjunəkeɪt / (say ekskuh myoohnuhkayt) verb (t) (excommunicated, excommunicating) 1. to cut off from communion or membership, especially from the sacraments and fellowship of the Christian church by ecclesiastical sentence. –noun 2. an… …

  • 26excommunicate —    Oki, oki mai ka hale pule aku …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 27excommunicate — To impose a sentence or order of excommunication. See excommunication …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 28excommunicate — v., adj., & n. Eccl. v.tr. officially exclude (a person) from participation in the sacraments, or from formal communion with the Church. adj. excommunicated. n. an excommunicated person. Derivatives: excommunication n. excommunicative adj.… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 29excommunicate capiendo — /ekskamyuwnakeytow kaepiyendow/ In ecclesiastical law, a writ issuing out of chancery, founded on a bishop s certificate that the defendant had been excommunicated, and requiring the sheriff to arrest and imprison him, returnable to the king s… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 30excommunicate deliberando — /ekskamyuwnakeytow dalibarsndow/ In old English law, a writ to the sheriff for delivery of an excommunicated person out of prison, upon certificate from the ordinary of his conformity to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction …

    Black's law dictionary