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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ex•com•mu•ni•ca•to•ry (eks′kə myo̅o̅′ni kə tôr′ē, -tōr′ē),USA pronunciation adj. - Religionrelating to or causing excommunication.
- excommunicate + -ory1 1675–85
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ex•com•mu•ni•cate /ˌɛkskəˈmyunɪˌkeɪt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], -cat•ed, -cat•ing. - Religionto cut off from the rites of a church.
ex•com•mu•ni•ca•tion /ˌɛkskəˌmyunɪˈkeɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [countable* uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ex•com•mu•ni•cate (v. eks′kə myo̅o̅′ni kāt′;n., adj. eks′kə myo̅o̅′ni kit, -kāt′),USA pronunciation v., -cat•ed, -cat•ing, n., adj. v.t. - Religionto cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
- Religionto exclude or expel from membership or participation in any group, association, etc.:an advertiser excommunicated from a newspaper.
n. - Religionan excommunicated person.
adj. - Religioncut off from communion with a church;
excommunicated.
- Late Latin excommūnicātus literally, put out of the community (past participle of excommūnicāre), equivalent. to ex- ex-1 + commūn(is) common, public + -ic- (by analogy with commūnicāre to communicate) + -ātus -ate1
- late Middle English excommunicaten (verb, verbal) 1375–1425
ex′com•mu′ni•ca′tor, n. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: excommunicate vb /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪt/- (transitive) to sentence (a member of the Church) to exclusion from the communion of believers and from the privileges and public prayers of the Church
adj /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkɪt; -ˌkeɪt/- having incurred such a sentence
n /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːnɪkɪt; -ˌkeɪt/- an excommunicated person
Etymology: 15th Century: from Late Latin excommūnicāre, literally: to exclude from the community, from Latin commūnis commonˌexcomˈmunicable adj ˌexcomˌmuniˈcation n ˌexcomˈmunicative, ˌexcomˈmunicatory adj ˌexcomˈmunicator n |