excommunicate

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1. excommunicate - Noun

2. excommunicate - Adjective

3. excommunicate - Verb

Meaning

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

One excommunicated.

To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

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The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner Source: Internet

A synod of clerics and scholars threatened to excommunicate him for these deaths, but St. Brendan of Birr spoke on his behalf with the result that he was allowed to go into exile instead. Source: Internet

He followed up with a bull that would excommunicate the king of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, a French delegation forcibly brought the pope to France. Source: Internet

In general, the Amish will excommunicate baptized members for failure to abide by their Ordnung (church rules) as it is interpreted by the local Bishop if certain repeat violations of the Ordnung occur. Source: Internet

By 1209 the situation showed no signs of resolution, and Innocent threatened to excommunicate John if he did not acquiesce to Langton's appointment. Source: Internet

Mann, pg. 272 They refused to divorce, and Honorius was forced to excommunicate Fulk and his son-in-law and to impose an interdict upon their territories. Source: Internet

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