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  • noun Plural form of Eucharist.

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Examples

  • I wonder, though, how Christians would feel about Jews or Muslims having play Eucharists?

    Christian Passover Seders: Rip-off or religious respect? 2011

  • Male Voice: Tired of bland unsatisfying Eucharists?

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • They also post all the Eucharists of the year, and there are videos from every Feast and Celebration.

    Not chant, but.... bls 2008

  • FINNEGAN: Goth Eucharists, U2charists -- and there may be more like them, as various parts of the Anglican Church try to help those whose lament is I still haven't found what I'm looking for.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2007 2007

  • The sometimes free-form Eucharists will take some getting used to, but that's to be expected in a seminary ... we experiment because it's an educational setting.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2004

  • "Four early Eucharists followed by another for children at half-past nine, and the parochial sung Mass -- sung Eucharist."

    The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927

  • And this custom, as the reader will perceive, became the origin of the Eucharists and Holy Communions of the later religions.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Meanwhile as instances of early Eucharists we may mention the following cases, remembering always that as the blood is regarded as the Life, the drinking or partaking of, or sprinkling with, blood is always an acknowledgment of the common life; and that the juice of the grape being regarded as the blood of the Vine, wine in the later ceremonials quite easily and naturally takes the place of the blood in the early sacrifices.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • The herd-animals (cows, sheep, and so forth) do not have Eucharists, simply because they are sensible enough to feed along the same pastures without quarrelling over the richest tufts of grass.

    Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning 1920

  • Eucharists were going up to God, William Ewart Gladstone passed out of mortal suffering into the peace which passeth understanding.

    Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences George William Erskine Russell 1886

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