| excommunicate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to sentence (a member of the Church) to exclusion from the communion of believers and from the privileges and public prayers of the Church |
| —adj | |
| 2. | having incurred such a sentence |
| —n | |
| 3. | an excommunicated person |
| [C15: from Late Latin excommūnicāre, literally: to exclude from the community, from Latin commūnis | |
| excom'municable | |
| —adj | |
| excommuni'cation | |
| —n | |
| excom'municative | |
| —adj | |
| excom'municatory | |
| —adj | |
| excom'municator | |
| —n | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |