Excommunicate

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.

2. One excommunicated. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak.