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excommunicate

(,/E/ksk/@/'m/j//u/n/@/,k/eI/t )

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.(adjective)

source: webster1913

exclude from a church or a religious community(verb.communication)

Example:
The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner.

Synonym:
curse, unchurch
Antonym:
communicate

source: wordnet30
oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree(verb.social)

source: wordnet30
To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.(verb)

source: webster1913

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