excommunicate
verb (used with object)
to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
excommunicates
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present tense formof excommunicate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It now excommunicates anyone who practises polygamy but a number of fundamentalist Mormon offshoots continue to do so.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2020
Complying with the church commandments isn’t such a problem for many Amish inmates, because the church usually excommunicates members who commit crimes of violence or depravity before they enter prison.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2012
The mainstream Mormon church, which has no affiliation with the FLDS, abandoned polygamy in 1890 and excommunicates members engaged in the practice.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2012
Good Catholic wives glanced at the crucifix on the wall, tried not to think of excommunicates.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an old rule of the Church that all excommunicates who did not within a year apply for absolution were condemned.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
