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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Excommunicat, p.p., ppl. a., and n. [e.m.E. (1526), L. excommūnicātus.] a. Excommunicated; accursed. b. An excommunicated person.a. a1500 Henr. III. 141/50.
Bakbyttaris … ar excommvnicat in all place c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2559.
Gyf he ȝit remanith obstinat, … Than lyke ane Turke hald him excomminicat [sic] 1560 Bk. Disc. 231.
The personis that for obstinat impenitence are publictlie excommunicat 1586 St. A. Kirk S. 571.
Cristene Ȝwill, adultrice with umquhill Jhone Robertson, being for the samyn excommunicat 1609 Acts IV. 429/1.
All suche persones … who ar excommunicat for religion 1622-6 Bisset I. 57/9.
Continewand cursit or excommunicat ane ȝeir 1662 Lamont Diary 195.
Divers persons were excommunicat att this tymeattrib. 1566 Bk. Univ. Kirk 77.
That no excommunicat person have any proces befor their honours [etc.] 1567 Sat. P. iii. 115.
Thairin ane exampill did I find How Acan tuik the excommunicat guid 1584 Gray Lett. & P. 3.
An excomunycat and profeshed papist 1647 Aberd. B. Rec. 74.
Some excommunicat persones and other of the rebellis being in armes within the tounb. 1590 Reg. Privy C. IV. 521.
Letters to be direct, chargeing the personis underwrittin … excommunicattis 1607 Dundonald Par. Rec. 139.
Margar Bryan … accused for resetting … Cristian Campbell, excommvnicat in Mwnktoun