单词 | excommunicate |
释义 | excommunicate —excommunicator, n. v. /eks'keuh myooh"ni kayt'/; n. , adj. /eks'keuh myooh"ni kit, -kayt'/, v. , excommunicated, excommunicating, n. , adj. v.t. 1. to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence. 2. to exclude or expel from membership or participation in any group, association, etc.: an advertiser excommunicated from a newspaper. n. 3. an excommunicated person. adj. 4. cut off from communion with a church; excommunicated. [1375-1425; late ME excommunicaten (v.) < LL excommunicatus lit., put out of the community (ptp. of excommunicare), equiv. to ex- EX-1 + commun(is) COMMON, public + -ic- (by analogy with communicare to COMMUNICATE) + -atus -ATE1] |
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