to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.

to exclude or expel from membership or participation in any group, association, etc.

an advertiser excommunicated from a newspaper.

an excommunicated person.

cut off from communion with a church; excommunicated.

verb

allow , include , permit , welcome

verb

anathematize , ban , cast out , curse , denounce , dismiss , eject , exclude , expel , oust , proscribe , remove , repudiate , unchurch , anathema , banish , defrock , interdict , ostracize