† excommunev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive (Ecclesiastical) = excommunicate v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > excommunication > excommunicate [verb (transitive)]
waryc725
cursec1050
amanseOE
accurselOE
forcurse1154
mansec1175
ban1303
sequester1395
maledighta1400
anathematize?1473
excommune1483
excommenge1502
excommunicate1526
precide1529
aban1565
anathemize1585
malison1588
consecrate1589
inknot1611
shammatize1613
anathemate1615
unchurcha1620
innodate1630
discommon1639
to swear at ——1680
devote1749
maledict1780
comminate1801
fulminate1806
imban1807
dischurch1990
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F ij Alle those that byleve the sortleges and devynours been excommunyd.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. vii. sig. h.ii v To be excommyned & departed by mortall synne from..the holy chirche catholyke.
1608 Bp. T. Morton Preamble Incounter 27 He was admonished and excommuned before he was degraded.
2. transferred. With double object: To excommunicate or exclude from.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)]
exclude1382
to face (a person) out ofc1530
repulse1548
seclude1581
excommune1650
to peg out1672
to include out1934
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iv. i. 15 We cannot recover Paphos proportionably into this Map, behold it therefore peeping in, but excommuned the lines thereof.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. vi. 21 Poets..were excommun'd Plato's Common Wealth.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
v.1483