Excommunicate

a.	1.	Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence. [imp. & p. p. Excommunicated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating .]
	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.

Verb	1.	excommunicate - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner" Synonyms: curse Antonyms: communicate - administer communion; in church
	2.	excommunicate - oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree

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