Part 4018

<h1>Excogitate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cog"i*tate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Excogitated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt>. <er>Excogitating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>excogitatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>excogitare</ets> to excogitate; <ets>ex</ets> out + <ets>cogitare</ets> to think. See <er>Cogitate</er>.]</ety> <def>To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.</def> "<i>Excogitate</i> strange arts."

<i>Stirling.</i>

<blockquote>This evidence . . . thus <b>excogitated</b> out of the general theory. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excogitate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cog"i*tate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To cogitate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Excogitation</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex*cog`i*ta"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excogitatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>excogitation</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.</def>

<h1>Excommune</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mune"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt> <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>excommuier</ets>. See <er>Excommunicate</er>.]</ety> <def>To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Poets . . . were <b>excommuned</b> Plato's common wealth <i>Gayton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excommunicable</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mu"ni*ca*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Excommunicate</er>.]</ety> <def>Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper.</def> "Persons <i>excommunicable</i> ."

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<blockquote>What offenses are <b>excommunicable</b> ? <i>Kenle.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excommunicant</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mu"ni*cant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who has been excommunicated.</def>

<h1>Excommunicate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex"com*mu"ni*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excommunicatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>communicare</ets> to excommunicate; <ets>ex out + communicare</ets>. See <er>Communicate</er>.]</ety> <def>Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>One excommunicated.</def></def2>

<blockquote>Thou shalt stand cursed and <b>excommunicate</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excommunicate</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mu"ni*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Excommunicated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Excommunicating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.</def>

<blockquote>Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that <b>excommunicated</b> the reading of heretical books. <i>Miltin.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Excommunication</h1> <Xpage=521>

<hw>Ex`com*mu`ni*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>excommunicatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>excommunication</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.</def>

<note>&hand; excommunication is of two kinds, the <i>lesser</i> and the <i>greater</i>; the <i>lesser</i> excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the <i>greater</i> is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful.</note>