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[escumuner] (s.xii1)
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[escumuner] (s.xii1)

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escommunier,  escomunier;  escumenier,  escuminer,  escuminier,  escummenier,  escumunier  (eschumeiner)  
  FEW:  excommunicare 3,279b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  escomenier 9,518a TL: escomeniier 3,954 DEAF:  escomeniier  DMF:  excommunier  TLF:  excommunier  OED:  excommune v.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  excommunicare 835a

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1eccl.to excommunicate, banish from the church: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  cil sunt escumenié De l’apostoile e del clergié  Rom de Rou wace ii 152.7213
♦to execrate, curse: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Tute jurn les meies paroles escommuniowent (Latin: Verba mea execrabantur)  Oxf Ps ANTS 74.55.5
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  des encuntrediz pechiez, Ki de Deu sunt escumengiez  ADGAR3 283.286
2to repudiate, abandon: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  n’escumunierai le mien testament  Oxf Ps ANTS 96.88.34
3theol.to profane, desecrate, defile: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  tu escuminias (Latin: profanasti) en terre la curune de lui  Camb Ps 164.LXXXVIII.40
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  Ki eschumeinet seintes choses, ne deit estre od eles  Eluc 26.101

p.p. as a.

profane, impious: 
( MS: s.xii2 )  prophanus: manful, escuminé  Aelfric Gloss 55.197

p.p. as s.

eccl.excommunicated person: 
( 1140-60; MS: 1140-60 ) et al derrein jugement en estreitte vengance, sicum l’escumunied Damnedeu tuz dis parmainnet  Ely Arch 270.70

See also:

escumengable  escumenge  escumengement  escumengément  escumenger  escumunation  escumunicatiun  escumuniement 
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