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excommunicate
verb
1 excommunicate
Exclude from a church or a religious community:
— The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner.
synonyms: curse, unchurch.
Roget 908:
curse,
accurse†,
imprecate,
damn,
swear at;
curse with bell book and candle;
invoke curses on the head of,
call down curses on the head of;
devote to destruction.
execrate,
beshrew†,
scold;
anathematize
etc.
(censure)
932;
bold up to execration,
denounce,
proscribe,
excommunicate,
fulminate,
thunder against;
threaten
etc.
909.
curse and swear;
swear,
swear like a trooper;
fall a cursing,
rap out an oath,
damn.
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Roget 998:
perform service
[ritual actions of clergy],
do duty,
minister,
officiate,
baptize,
dip,
sprinkle;
anoint,
confirm,
lay hands on;
give the sacrament,
administer the sacrament;
administer extreme unction;
hear confession,
administer holy penance,
shrive;
excommunicate,
ban with bell book and candle.
[ritual actions of believers]
attend services,
attend mass,
go to mass,
hear mass;
take the sacrament,
receive the sacrament,
receive communion,
attend the sacrament,
partake of the sacrament,
partake of communion;
communicate;
receive extreme unction;
confess,
go to confession,
receive penance;
anele†.
[teaching functions of clergy]
preach,
sermonize,
predicate,
lecture.
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Roget 893:
be secluded,
live secluded
etc.
adj.;
keep aloof,
stand,
hold oneself aloof,
keep in the background,
stand in the background;
keep snug;
shut oneself up;
deny oneself,
seclude oneself creep into a corner,
rusticate,
aller planter ses choux [Fr.];
retire,
retire from the world;
take the veil;
abandon
etc.
624;
sport one's oak [Slang].
cut,
cut dead;
refuse to associate with,
refuse to acknowledge;
look cool upon,
turn one's back upon,
shut the door upon;
repel,
blackball,
excommunicate,
exclude,
exile,
expatriate;
banish,
outlaw,
maroon,
ostracize,
proscribe,
cut off from,
send to Coventry,
keep at arm's length,
draw a cordon round.
depopulate;
dispeople†,
unpeople†.
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2 excommunicate
Oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree.
Moby thesaurus: accurse, anathematize, attaint, ban, banish, blackball, blacklist, blaspheme, blast, break, bring home to, bust, cashier, cast out, censure, condemn, confound, convict, curse, cut, damn, darn, deconsecrate, defrock, denounce, denunciate, deport, depose, dethrone, disbar, discrown, disenthrone, disfellowship, dismiss, displace, doom, drum out, exclude, execrate, exile, expatriate, expel, extradite, find guilty, fugitate, fulminate against, give the gate, hex, imprecate, kick upstairs, liquidate, ostracize, oust, outlaw, overthrow, pass sentence on, penalize, pension, pension off, pronounce judgment, pronounce sentence, proscribe, purge, read out of, relegate, remove, remove from office, retire, rusticate, send to Coventry, sentence, snub, spurn, strip of office, strip of rank, superannuate, suspend, throw a whammy, thrust out, thunder against, transport, unchurch, unfrock, unsaddle, unseat, unthrone ... show more.
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