communicant
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communicant (plural communicants)
- (Christianity) A person who receives (or is allowed to receive) the elements (i.e., bread and wine) of the sacrament of Holy Communion. (Compare also these terms: communion, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mass, Eucharist, Divine Liturgy.)
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Bennett
- a never-failing monthly communicant
- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
- Meanwhile, the lass grew up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. I have heard Dr. Chrystal say that he never had a communicant more full of the things of the Spirit.
- August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Bennett
- One who communicates.
- 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 94:
- Each was a messenger and communicant with a special branch of knowledge.
- 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
- partakers communicant with the bodie of Christ
- 2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians, page 215:
- These cyberforums are asynchronous; that is, contributors post (i.e., publish a text message) without the need for fellow communicants to be online at the same time.
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person who receives Communion
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Adjective edit
communicant (not comparable)
- Communicating.
- c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Field on the Church:
- The co-eternal Son of the living God, incarnate, tempted, crucified, resurgent, communicant of his spirit, ascendant, and obtaining for his church the descent of the Holy Ghost.
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communicating
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cōmmunicāns.
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communicant m (plural communicanten, diminutive communicantje n)
- (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A communicant, one receiving Holy Communion.
- Synonym: communieganger
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- → Indonesian: komunikan
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communicant (feminine communicante, masculine plural communicants, feminine plural communicantes)
- communicating
- vases communicants (communicating vessels)
Further reading edit
- “communicant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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commūnicant