Definition of "unchurch" [un•church]

• To expel from a church or from church membership; excommunicate. (verb-transitive)
• To deprive (a congregation, sect, or building) of the status of a church. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Deron Cloud, founder and pastor of the Soul Factory, called it the "unchurch"."
• "Have had been a member of the church 25 years and the last 3 years have worship on line and now through facebook and this is great opporunity to your unchurch The Lord will work in the life of this people"
• "[103] Every corruption doth not presently unchurch a people."