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  • noun Plural form of communicant.

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Examples

  • It should be stated, also, that the decrease shown for the Disciples or Christians in the number of organizations and of communicants is probably due in part to incomplete returns for 1906.

    Religious Bodies: 1906 United States. Bureau of the Census. 1906

  • Court orders issued last week by a Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will enable the government to conduct electronic surveillance – very specifically, surveillance into or out of the United States where there is probable cause to believe that one of the communicants is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an associated terrorist organization – subject to the approval of the FISA Court.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Inside Story of Why Congress Is Now Willing to Amend FISA: 2007

  • Court orders issued last week by a Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court will enable the government to conduct electronic surveillance – very specifically, surveillance into or out of the United States where there is probable cause to believe that one of the communicants is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an associated terrorist organization – subject to the approval of the FISACourt.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Inside Story of Why Congress Is Now Willing to Amend FISA: 2007

  • Christian constituency and the communicants is a most illuminating factor.

    Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions Roland Allen 1908

  • I believe that the ministers and elders of the two meetings arranged to combine their forces at these times, and to baptize communicants from both congregations.

    Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888

  • The Diocese of the Rio Grande is composed of some 13,000 baptized communicants in 56 congregations.

    ACNS News Digest 2010

  • Some of the _ci-devant_ "communicants" call Robert Owen a fool, whilst others brand him with still more opprobrious epithets: and I never could get two of them to agree as to the primary causes of the failure of that community.

    A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

  • Catholics do not recognize any such enumeration as "communicants"; the total for this head therefore underestimates the Catholic population.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • "I am writing to inform you that on January 10, 2007, a Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued orders authorizing the Government to target for collection international communications into or out of the united States where there is probable cause to believe that one of the communicants is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an associated terrorist organization.

    Shayana Kadidal: Reports of the NSA Program's Death: Greatly Exaggerated? 2008

  • In addition to finding jobs, homes, and other assistance for his communicants, much of Fr.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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