excommunicate: Meaning and Definition of

ex•com•mu•ni•cate

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.

1. an excommunicated person.

1. cut off from communion with a church; excommunicated.