excommunicate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they excommunicate | |
| he / she / it excommunicates | |
| past simple excommunicated | |
| past participle excommunicated | |
| -ing form excommunicating |
- excommunicate somebody (for something)
to punish somebody by officially stating that they can no longer be a member of a Christian Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church （尤指天主教）绝罚（开除教籍） Word Originlate 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 ‘to share’.