a. [f. EXCOMMUNICATE v. + -IVE.] a. Characterized by the refusal of communion. b. Containing a sentence of excommunication. c. Also of persons: Disposed or eager to excommunicate.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1848), I. 166. No other Church acts on so narrow and excommunicative a principle.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), I. II. iv. 68. Thomas à Becket … coming home excommunicative.
1876. Contemp. Rev., XXVIII. 65. There was in existence an excommunicative decree against comedians.
