1. (a.) Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

2. (n.) One excommunicated.

3. (v. t.) To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

4. (v. t.) To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.

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