EXCOMMUNICANT
Ex`com*mu"ni*cant, n.
Defn: One who has been excommunicated.
EXCOMMUNICATE Ex"com*mu"ni*cate, a. Etym: [L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Defn: Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
— n.
Defn: One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.
EXCOMMUNICATE Ex`com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
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. Miltin.
EXCOMMUNICATION Ex`com*mu`ni*ca"tion, n. Etym: [L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication.]
Defn: The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.