communicate vs excommunicate

communicate

verb
  • To administer the Holy Communion to (someone). 

  • To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. 

  • To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc. 

  • To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information. 

  • To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion. 

  • To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel. 

  • To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of. 

excommunicate

verb
  • To officially exclude someone from membership of a church or religious community. 

  • To exclude from any other group; to banish. 

noun
  • An excommunicated person. 

adj
  • Excommunicated. 

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