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Wiktionary

  1. n. literally The corpse or resurrected body of Jesus Christ.
  2. n. figuratively The bread of the eucharist.
  3. n. figuratively A title describing, as a whole group, all believers in Jesus Christ.

Etymologies

  1. body + of + Christ (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “That this period of forty hours was so selected seems in all probability due to the fact that this was about the length of time that the Body of Christ remained in the tomb, and that the Blessed Sacrament in the Middle Ages was left in the Easter”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

  • “For, through the accurate distinction made between the Eucharistic Body of Christ and its exterior sensible appearances, the way was cleared for a deeper understanding of the Eucharistic species or accidents in distinction from, and in opposition to, the invisible body of Christ hidden under them.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

  • “non alia plane caro, quam quae nata est de Maria et passa in cruce et resurrexit de sepulchro" (loc. cit.), Ratramnus thought it necessary to insist that the Body of Christ in the sacred Host — notwithstanding its essential identity with the historical Body — is present by a spiritual mode of existence and consequently as an”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

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