- to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
- to exclude or expel from membership or participation in any group, association, etc.: an advertiser excommunicated from a newspaper.
- an excommunicated person.
- cut off from communion with a church; excommunicated.
- to sentence (a member of the Church) to exclusion from the communion of believers and from the privileges and public prayers of the Church
- having incurred such a sentence
- an excommunicated person
