Ex"com*mu"ni*cate (?), a. [L.
excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate;
ex out + communicare. See Communicate.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
-- n. One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and
excommunicate.
Shak.
Ex`com*mu"ni*cate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Excommunicated (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating (?).]
1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut
off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an
ecclesiastical sentence.
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to
interdict.
Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that
excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
Miltin.
