Definition of "excommunicated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate. (verb)

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• "I see in the news article that the creator of these calendars not only was excommunicated from the LDS church, but that Brigham Young University withheld the diploma that he had earned."
• "Only recently has the Catholic Church recognized that the earth revolves around the sun; and Judaism forgave the philosopher Spinoza, who was excommunicated from the Jewish community in Amsterdam because he believed that god was everywhere in nature; indeed god was nature and vice versa."
• "Blackmore lost a large portion of his workforce when he was excommunicated from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."