a. [f. EXCOMMUNIC-ATE v. + -ABLE.] Liable to be excommunicated; deserving excommunication. Of an offence: Punishable by excommunication.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., III. i. (1617), 84. Although they be impious idolaters, wicked Heretikes, persons excommunicable.
1646. Burd. Issachar, in Phenix (1708), II. 281. This Assembly is above the King;… to their Orders he must give Obedience: otherwise he is excommunicable.
1680. Baxter, Cath. Commun. (1684), 13. To render each other odious, or vile, and excommunicable.
1836. Keble, in Hooker’s Wks. (1845), I. Pref. 28. What offences are excommunicable.
