WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Definitions of excommunication. the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society. synonyms: excision. type of: banishment, proscription.

Detailed explanation-2: -excommunicated; excommunicating. : to shut off officially from the rights of church membership.

Detailed explanation-3: -Words related to excommunicate anathematize, ban, curse, denounce, dismiss, eject, exclude, expel, oust, proscribe, remove, repudiate, unchurch, cast out.

Detailed explanation-4: -Excommunication or disfellowshiping is an institutional act of religious censure used to end or at least regulate the communion of a member of a congregation with other members of the religious institution who are in normal communion with each other.