excommunicated
- past participle of excommunicate.
- past tense form of excommunicate.
Example Sentences
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In response, the Society's total of six bishops were excommunicated - and, in a highly unusual move, the Vatican said all the group's lay members "are to be considered schismatic and excommunicated".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
“I like to say I was excommunicated from the church of the medical establishment,” he said in the Substack video.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
Two excommunicated Spanish nuns who have joined a sect were held for allegedly selling cultural assets belonging to the Catholic Church from a convent they refuse to leave, a court said on Friday.
From Barron's ● Nov. 28, 2025
Samuel Sanders, director of the Fellowship board, was excommunicated after he wrote an internal email to fellow board members in 1981.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
Pigeons destroyed farm fields so often that the bishop of Quebec formally excommunicated the species in 1703.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
