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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"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
Ay, but," said Claire, now eager to do her friend justice, "my Doctor they have excommunicated also, because he withstood them in full Senatus.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Melanchthon, Philipp
If you had left without seeing me I'd have excommunicated Casey.
From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna
The King commands you to absolve the bishops Whom you have excommunicated.
From Becket and other plays by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
