excommunicate
verb/ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
/ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excommunicate | /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it excommunicates | /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪts/ /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple excommunicated | /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle excommunicated | /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form excommunicating | /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /ˌekskəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- excommunicate somebody (for something) to punish somebody by officially stating that they can no longer be a member of a Christian ChurchWord Originlate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin excommunicat- ‘excluded from communication with the faithful’, from the verb excommunicare, from ex- ‘out’ + Latin communis ‘common to all’, on the pattern of Latin communicare ‘to share’.
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