excommunicate
verb (used with object)
to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
has excommunicated
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present perfectof excommunicate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The Party has excommunicated a few of the most flagrantly intolerant members of its establishment, including, in 2014, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
Over the past two years the Vatican has excommunicated three Chinese bishops who were elevated without approval of the Pope.
From Time ● Mar. 21, 2013
Do you not know that the Pope has excommunicated the King of Prussia?
From Frederick the Great and His Family by Coleman, Chapman, Mrs.
Oh, my Lord," said the old serving-man, with a distressful movement, "we have fallen on evil times, to be sure, and they say his Holiness has excommunicated us.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
In another letter to the same monarch,92 he announces that he writes no longer to Lothaire because he has excommunicated him.
From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois
