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excommunicate
(,/E/ksk/@/'m/j//u/n/@/,k/eI/t
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adjective (a)
- Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.(adjective)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- exclude from a church or a religious community(verb.communication)Example:
The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner.
source: wordnet30 - oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree(verb.social)source: wordnet30
- To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.(verb)source: webster1913
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