“The Church reciprocated by forbidding membership in the Masons under pain of excommunication.”

“Grey's anatomical studies follow the precedent set by Michelangelo, who risked excommunication to secretly study anatomy in a morgue.”

“His condemnation of violence and wealth, of government repression and church hypocrisy, brought him administrative pinpricks and excommunication.”

“The Hospital and the Temple still refused to have dealings with an excommunicant.”

“On 9 August 1239, Henry is reported to have confronted Montfort, called him an excommunicant and threatened to imprison him in the Tower of London.”

“I hope you have the wit to laugh at the abbess's silly excommunications?”

“Since the mutual excommunications of 1054, the Pope in Rome was committed to establishing authority over the eastern church.”