unchurch

IPA: ʌntʃˈɝtʃ

(transitive) To expel from membership of a congregation or church; to excommunicate.

Examples of "unchurch" in Sentences

[103] Every corruption doth not presently unchurch a people.
Was ever monkish work begun in more unchurch-like surroundings?
And is it not fit and equal that God should unchurch us and unpeople us?
Deron Cloud, founder and pastor of the Soul Factory, called it the "unchurch".
Boucher, who held the opinion that the refusal of Virginia to consent to a bishop was to "unchurch the church."
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
Have had been a member of the church 25 years and the last 3 years have worship on line and now through facebook and this is great opporunity to your unchurch The Lord will work in the life of this people
The brewers were blameless in their personal behaviour, regular in their attendance in the sanctuary, and exact in their fulfilment of the conditions of church membership; and he could not unchurch them merely because they were brewers.
That the sin of slaveholding, as practiced in the American churches, is a sin of the first degree, and the greatest known in the catalogue of crimes -- the highest violation of God's law -- a shameful abuse of God's creatures, shocking to enlightened humanity, and should unchurch, and does unchristianize every man and woman who is a slaveholder.