excommunicate
verb (used with object)
to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.
have excommunicated
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present perfectof excommunicate.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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"And you have not heard, then," said the cavalier, eagerly, "that they have excommunicated him?"
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 by Various
Indeed, the early Socinians would have denied to Dr. Priestley and his friends the title of Christians, and would have excommunicated them from their Society.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
Likewise some Churches have excommunicated others because of such traditions, as the observance of Easter, pictures, and the like.
From Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philipp Melanchthon
You say that conspiring with the senate I have excommunicated you.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
"Absolve the persons whom you have excommunicated," they said, "and take off the suspensions."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
