excommunicator
Noun: A person who excommunicates; someone who formally excludes an individual from membership in a religious community, especially in the Christian church, by pronouncing a sentence of excommunication.
- (The bishop performed the formal act of excommunication.)
- (The person who excommunicated had authority over religious membership.)
- (The person pronouncing excommunication spoke the formal words.)
"the excommunicator's role": the function or position of a person who carries out excommunication.
- The excommunicator's role was often feared and respected within the community. (The position carried significant social and spiritual weight.)
"to act as an excommunicator": to perform the act of excommunication.
- He was appointed to act as an excommunicator for the diocese. (He was given the authority to exclude members from the church.)
Excommunicate (verb): to officially exclude someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian church.
- The church voted to excommunicate the rebellious priest. (To formally remove from church membership.)
Excommunication (noun): the act of excommunicating; the state of being excommunicated.
- Excommunication was a severe punishment in the medieval church. (The formal exclusion from the church.)
- Expeller: one who forces someone to leave a group or place.
- Outcaster: one who casts someone out from a community (less common).
- Banisher: one who officially sends someone away or prohibits them from returning.
To pronounce the ban: to formally declare someone excluded from the church, similar to the act of an excommunicator.
- The priest pronounced the ban against the dissenter. (He formally excommunicated the person.)
To cut off from the church: to exclude someone from religious fellowship.
- The council cut him off from the church for his teachings. (They excommunicated him.)