excommunicate vs sentence

excommunicate

verb
  • To exclude from any other group; to banish. 

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

adj
  • Excommunicated. 

noun
  • An excommunicated person. 

sentence

verb
  • To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to condemn to punishment. 

  • To decree, announce, or pass as a sentence. 

noun
  • A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop or other punctuation. 

  • A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. 

  • Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. 

  • A formula with no free variables. 

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