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excardinates

excardinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of excardinate.

Meaning of excardinate

Verb

excardinate (third-person singular simple present excardinates, present participle excardinating, simple past and past participle excardinated)

  1. (transitive) To free (a member of the clergy) from the jurisdiction of a particular bishop.
    • When a see is vacant , whoever governs the diocese ad interim until the designation of a diocesan administrator is not competent to incardinate or excardinate a cleric ( cann . 419 , 428 ) . Can . 272 adds that the diocesan[…]2002, Michael J. Mullaney, Incardination and the Universal Dimension of the Priestly Ministry: A Comparison Between CIC 17 and CIC 83, Gregorian Biblical BookShop, →ISBN, page 187
    Antonyms:
    incardinate

Questions about excardinates

What is excardinates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Excardinates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of excardinate.

Words near excardinates in the dictionary

  1. excandidate
  2. excantation
  3. excantations
  4. excardinate
  5. excardinated
  6. excardinates
  7. excardinating
  8. excardination
  9. excardinations
  10. excarnate
  11. excarnated

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