excommunicated
excommunicated is the simple past and past participle of excommunicate.
Meaning of excommunicate
Verb
excommunicate (third-person singular simple present excommunicates, present participle excommunicating, simple past and past participle excommunicated)
- To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community.
- “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It’s absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXXVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 294
- To exclude from any other group; to banish.
- Samois includes celebate ^([sic]), heterosexual and bisexual women as well as lesbians, and I feel very strongly that this is the wisest choice. Our community is so fragile that we can't afford to fragment it by excommunicating non-lesbian women.1982 December 18, Pat Califa, “Open Policy”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 5
Words formed from excommunicated
Questions about excommunicated
- What is excommunicated the simple past and past participle of?
- Excommunicated is the simple past and past participle of excommunicate.
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