[ad. L. excommūnicant-em, pr. pple. of excommūnicāre: see EXCOMMUNICATE. (With sense 2 cf. EXAMINANT 2.)]

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  1.  One who excommunicates; an excommunicator.

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1651.  Hobbes, Leviath., III. xlii. 308. Might bee a greater pain to the Excommunicant, than to the Excommunicate.

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  ¶ 2.  = EXCOMMUNICATE B.

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1586.  Ferne, Blaz. Gentrie, 313. Likewise with these, we arraunge all … excommunicants, heretiques, vsurers, pandars, histrions, or stage players.

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1641.  Heylin, Hist. Episcopacy (1657), II. 365. When as the wickednesse of Felicissimus … was growne unto the height, the Father of his owne authority denounced him excommunicant.

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1887.  J. Martineau, National Church, in Contemp. Rev., LI. 416. Innumerable swarms of excommunicants—Donatists, Arians, Monophysites, Albigenses, Hussites. [In mod. Dicts.]

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