[v. eks-kuh-myoo-ni-keyt; n., adj. eks-kuh-myoo-ni-kit, -keyt] 
verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing, noun, adjective | 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. |
| 3. | an excommunicated person. |
| 4. | cut off from communion with a church; excommunicated. |
| ex·com·mu·ni·cate (ěks'kə-myōō'nĭ-kāt') tr.v. ex·com·mu·ni·cat·ed, ex·com·mu·ni·cat·ing, ex·com·mu·ni·cates
A person who has been excommunicated. adj. (-kĭt, -kāt') Having been excommunicated. [Middle English excommunicaten, from Late Latin excommūnicāre, excommūnicāt- : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin commūnicāre, to share (from commūnis, common; see common).] ex'com·mu'ni·ca'tive (-kā'tĭv, -kə-), ex'com·mu'ni·ca·to'ry (-kə-tôr'ē, -tōr'ē) adj., ex'com·mu'ni·ca'tor n. |