Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or an instance of sharing, as of thoughts or feelings.
- n. Religious or spiritual fellowship.
- n. A body of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites; a denomination.
- n. Ecclesiastical The sacrament of the Eucharist received by a congregation.
- n. Ecclesiastical The consecrated elements of the Eucharist.
- n. Ecclesiastical The part of the Mass or a liturgy in which the Eucharist is received.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Participation in something, especially in ideas and sentiments held in common; hence, fellowship; concord; association.
- n. Intercourse between two or more persons; interchange of thoughts or interests; communication.
- n. Union in religious worship, or in doctrine and discipline; religious fellowship: as, members in full communion.
- n. A body of Christians who have one common faith, but not necessarily ecclesiastical union; a religious denomination.
- n. The act of partaking of the sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; also, the elements of the eucharist.
- n. Common action; common consent; public act.
Wiktionary
- n. A joining together of minds or spirits.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of sharing; community; participation.
- n. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship.
- n. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline.
- n. The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; ; called also
Holy Communion .
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites
- n. the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist
- n. sharing thoughts and feelings
Etymologies
- From Latin commūniō ("communion"), from cum ("with") + mūnus ("gift"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English communioun, Christian fellowship, Eucharist, from Old French communion, from Late Latin commūniō, commūniōn-, from Latin, mutual participation, from commūnis, common; see common. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“By its immense lever of association it alone is able to realize by a productive communion (_communion génératrice_) that great and beautiful social unity conceived by Jaurez, Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier.”
“_time_ when communion is to be received, while they themselves must acknowledge, that they have _abolished communion_ itself as well as”
“This being done, we proceed unto the communion, if any communicants be to receive the Eucharist; if not, we read the Decalogue, Epistle, and Gospel, with the Nicene Creed (of some in derision called the dry communion), and then proceed unto an homily or sermon, which hath a psalm before and after it, and finally unto the baptism of such infants as on every Sabbath day (if occasion so require) are brought unto the churches; and thus is the forenoon bestowed.”
“One of the facts which impresses itself on the mind of a minister of another communion is the extraordinary solidarity and continuousness in movement and in outlook of that great and splendid communion whose history is inwrought with so much that is best in the history of our people, I mean the Church of England.”
“Is there an unbroken flow of such into what we call our communion?”
“In a telegram sent to the newly-elected Patriarch, the Pope wrote: May the Almighty bless your efforts to maintain communion among the Orthodox Churches and to seek that fullness of communion which is the goal of Catholic-Orthodox collaboration and dialogue.”
“It knows that these winds are not the breath of the Holy Spirit; it knows that the Spirit of God is expressed and manifested in communion with Jesus Christ.”
“To live the Eucharist, is to enter in communion with Jesus Christ and as a consequence with His love.”
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“If true, this would be absolutely thrilling news, and also show a possible canonical solution for the future status of the SSPX once, Deo volente, full communion is reestablished there as well.”
Traditional Anglican Communion to be Received as Personal Prelature?
“For example, what about alcohol in communion wine?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘communion’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
vanish, number one, archangel, commodious, dominie, rubble, glisten, morose, spindle, ventilation, Blessed, christian and 503 more...
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RELI - Christian doctrines
mass, infallibility, inerrancy, communicable attr..., incommunicable at..., fortuitous incarn..., atonement, hypostatic union, mystical union, spirit-baptism, sanctification, indwelling and 90 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Postscripture ✞
Terms associated with the Christianity, The Bible, etc. I have a related, but more narrow list called Imbible Code.
A related list is Words Associated With Jesus.apostole, pharaoh, sodom, babel, sabbath, baptize, cherub, elohim, lapsarian, crucifixion, nephilim, hosanna and 195 more...
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religion
who is this god person, anyway? (--Douglas Adams)
sachristy, vestry, diocese, papal, cardinal, pope, polygamy, seven, father, chaplain, vestments, blessing and 227 more...
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amazing grace
hymn, nave, narthex, chapel, novice, asperges, altar, annunciation, liturgical, litany, nicene creed, cloister and 209 more...
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cat 2012
mala fide, trafficking, impoverished, atrocity, divulge, personify, audacity, resurrect, dubious, bloated, sovereign, rein and 123 more...
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Theological Words
a priori, adiaphora, advent, agnosticism, amillennialism, anabaptists, postmillennialism, angel, animism, annihilationism, anthropic principle, anthropomorphic and 96 more...
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Phallic Words
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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Christmas Pageant Chapter Four
Vocabulary for Chapter Four of the Best Christmas Pageant Ever
outlaws, espoused, swaddling, frankincense, disgraceful, squinched, communion, saloon, ornaments, truant, trough, snitch
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rituale romanum
apostolic, vestments, surplice, stole, cassock, sacrament, communion, litany, absolution, transubstantiation, bread, wine and 53 more...
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Words I Once Thought Only Catholics Used
Imagine my surprise when I learned otherwise. :-)
absolution, abstain, adore, advent, amen, anoint, aspiration, atone, canon, cardinal, celibate, circumcision and 50 more...
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words i love
Words I love for their combination of meaning and sound.
realize, presence, communion, soft, delight, peppermint, heather, wobble, billowy, reiterate, suspense, perhaps and 11 more...
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actions
ritual, communion, baptism, wedding, funeral, cremation, burial, sacrifice, election, interview, meeting, dating and 19 more...
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Cafeteria Catholic
pick'n and choose'n the words I heard in or about church
vestry, genuflect, tabernacle, chalice, penguin, gifts, host, eucharist, crucifix, inri, wimple, tetragrammaton and 39 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for communion.
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