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Unchurch

Unchurch \Un*church"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + church.]

  1. To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.
    --Sir M. Hale.

  2. To deprive of the character, privileges, and authority of a church.
    --South.

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unchurch

vb. To expel from membership of a congregation or church; to excommunicate

Usage examples of "unchurch".

And is it not fit and equal that God should unchurch us and unpeople us?

You could use Ray Dalke because he was willing to sacrifice the unchurched, so long as he was saved as one of the elect, immortal headmen in the kingdom of God.

In January, 1897, he gathered about him a few leading men and women of the race and organized a church in Northwest Washington, in the midst of a large unchurched population.

Simeon of Cambridge had previously set the example of caring for the unchurched population by his personal labors and the outlay of his large private fortune.

It has unchurched millions, is still unchurching at a tremendous rate, and will end by unchurching itself.

The unchurched all looked alike to Sandy, differing only in the details of their dress, modes of transportation, and to what extent the curia allowed interaction with them.

The unchurched in the valley tried for a few hours to pull their boats up onto the shore, but the muddy expanse between the water and their lurching docks grew too quickly.

Shed B, early summer had been revoked and what one met at the door was the dank cold of a hunting camp when you arrive in November, the stove in the middle of the room as dead as an unchurched god.

God to his parishioners, his family, the unchurched, society at large, and, last, the self, and not the other way.