Also 6, 8 -icat. [ad. L. excommūnicāt-us, pa. pple. of excommūnicā-re (see next).]
A. pa. pple. and ppl. adj.
1. Excommunicated. arch.
1526. Tindale, John ix. 22. He shulde be excommunicat out of the Sinagoge.
1662. Lamont, Diary, 21 Sept., 195. Divers persons were excommunicat att this tyme.
1762. Hume, Hist. Eng., xiv. 129. They … engaged the bishops … to pronounce him [Gavaston] excommunicate if he remained any longer in the kingdom.
1839. Bailey, Festus, Proem (1848), 5/1. Nor is this An outlawed orb nor excommunicate.
1874. Green, Short Hist., iii. § 2. 121. None of his allies … could fight side by side with an excommunicate king.
¶ 2. Excommunicate things (trans. Heb. ḥērem): objects devoted to destruction.
1551. Bible, (Matthew), Josh. vi. 18. If you take of the excommunicate thyngs so shal you make the hooste of Israell excommunicate.
1635. Pagitt, Christianogr. (1640), 213. Achan … took of the excommunicate things of Jerico.
B. sb. An excommunicated person.
1562. in Strype, Ann. Ref., I. xxxi. 310. Those Excommunicates, for whom there is a Significavit directed.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., IV. (1851), 159. Thou hast neglected to abstain from the House of that Excommunicate.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymns Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 135. Jews you as Excommunicates will treat.
1852. Miss Yonge, Cameos (1877), III. xxx. 309. They turned the coffin of Gaston de Foix, as an excommunicate, out of the Cathedral.
transf. 1626. Shirley, Brothers, III. i. (1652), 33. Whilst poor Fernando for her sake must stand An excommunicate from every blessing.
1640. T. Carew, To my inconstant Mistris, i. Thou, poore excommunicate From all the joyes of love.
