excommunicate
Meaning of excommunicate
- officially exclude (someone) from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
Martin Luther was excommunicated by the Pope
- excommunicated.
an excommunicate bishop
- an excommunicated person.
the arrest of excommunicates
late 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 (see communicate).
Information about excommunicate
- The plural form of excommunicate is: excommunicates.
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Hyphenation of excommunicate
ex-com-mu-ni-cate
- It consists of 5 syllables and 13 chars.
- excommunicate is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
excommunicate synonyms
Meaning unchurch:
Translation of excommunicate
- French: excommunier
- German: exkommunizieren
- Spanish: excomulgar
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