Excommunicated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excommunicate \Ex`com*mu"ni*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Excommunicated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Excommunicating}.]
     1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut
        out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical
        sentence.
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     2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
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              Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that
              excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
                                                    --Miltin.
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