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Unchurch

To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.

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Excommunicate 84% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Excommunicate 84% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Exclude 76% connected

To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as,…

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Shut 76% connected

of Shut

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Censure 74% connected

Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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Censure 74% connected

Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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Excision 74% connected

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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Excision 74% connected

The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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Curse 92% connected

To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.

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Excommunicate 92% connected

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.

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Aband verb · 78% connection

To banish; to expel.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: expel, cause, separate, church, excommunicate.
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Abandon verb · 78% connection

To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.

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Abdicate verb · 78% connection

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

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Anglo-Catholic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a church modeled on the English Reformation; Anglican; -- sometimes restricted to the ritualistic or High Church s…

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Benefice noun · 78% connection

An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of di…

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Broad Church unknown · 78% connection

A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and fellowship, interme…

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Calcine verb · 78% connection

To reduce to a powder, or to a friable state, by the action of heat; to expel volatile matter from by means of heat, as carbonic acid…

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Carminative noun · 78% connection

A substance, esp. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

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Cough verb · 78% connection

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

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Disbar verb · 78% connection

To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.

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Disclame verb · 78% connection

To disclaim; to expel.

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Drier noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great…

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Drum verb · 78% connection

(With out) To expel ignominiously, with beat of drum; as, to drum out a deserter or rogue from a camp, etc.

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Eject verb · 78% connection

To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from…

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Eliminate verb · 78% connection

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from t…

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Episcopalian noun · 78% connection

One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specificall…

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Evangelical adjective · 78% connection

Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to…

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Evaporate verb · 78% connection

To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate a…

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