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Excommunicate
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
(2):
(n.) One excommunicated.
(3):
(v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
(4):
(v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Excommunicate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/excommunicate.html. 1828.