Associations to the word «Excommunicate»

Wiktionary

EXCOMMUNICATE, adjective. Excommunicated.
EXCOMMUNICATE, noun. A person so excluded.
EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. (transitive) To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. (transitive) To exclude from any other group; to banish.

Dictionary definition

EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. Exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner".
EXCOMMUNICATE, verb. Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope