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- noun Plural form of
excommunicate . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
excommunicate .
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The futuristic India in Ian McDonald's River of Gods would be marvelous enough with its technological society, one where the sentience of artificial intelligence is limited by a law called the Hamilton Acts; where illegal software houses circumvent the law; where a government agency known as The Ministry "excommunicates" rogue AIs from this world; where virtual reality is the order of the day; where popular soap operas feature computer-generated characters played by computer-generated actors; where advanced medical procedures can turn you into a genderless "nute" or genetic engineering can give you a disease free, slow-aging Brahmin child; where power is generated underneath sidewalks that harness the energy of footsteps; where even greater amounts of energy can be realized from the potential difference between two universes that exist at different ground states; and where an alien artifact is found in space that holds untold mysteries.
March 2006 2006
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The futuristic India in Ian McDonald's River of Gods would be marvelous enough with its technological society, one where the sentience of artificial intelligence is limited by a law called the Hamilton Acts; where illegal software houses circumvent the law; where a government agency known as The Ministry "excommunicates" rogue AIs from this world; where virtual reality is the order of the day; where popular soap operas feature computer-generated characters played by computer-generated actors; where advanced medical procedures can turn you into a genderless "nute" or genetic engineering can give you a disease free, slow-aging Brahmin child; where power is generated underneath sidewalks that harness the energy of footsteps; where even greater amounts of energy can be realized from the potential difference between two universes that exist at different ground states; and where an alien artifact is found in space that holds untold mysteries.
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I say, unless one excommunicates the vicious freaks and opposes them at every opportunity?
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the mainstream Mormon church, abandoned the practice in 1890 as a condition of Utah's statehood and excommunicates members who engage in the practice.
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About the only thing that excommunicates him from leftism is raging homophobia.
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I say, unless one excommunicates the vicious freaks and opposes them at every opportunity?
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Strictly speaking, he who offends against the unity of the Church excommunicates himself.
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A priest who ordains a woman excommunicates himself through his actions.
Michele Somerville: Female Priests: As Sinful as Pedophiles? 2010
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While the Church excommunicates the Communists, they ask the priests and sisters to comply with the government.
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While the Church excommunicates the Communists, they ask the priests and sisters to comply with the government.
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