excommune

English

Etymology

ex- +‎ commune

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɛkskəˈmjuːn/

Verb

excommune (third-person singular simple present excommunes, present participle excommuning, simple past and past participle excommuned)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot:

     His mouth would have been excommuned provender for ever

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “excommune”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)