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excommunicatory

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ex⋅com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ca⋅to⋅ry

  [eks-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
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–adjective
relating to or causing excommunication.
Origin:
1675–85; excommunicate + -ory 1
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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

  1. To deprive of the right of church membership by ecclesiastical authority.

  2. To exclude by or as if by decree from membership or participation in a group.

n.   (-kĭt)
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.
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