Bible Dictionaries
Excommunication

Webster's Dictionary

(n.) 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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Excommunication'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/excommunication.html. 1828.