Excommunication
English Meaning
The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- The act of excommunicating.
- The state of being excommunicated.
- A formal ecclesiastical censure that deprives a person of the right to belong to a church.