Sacramentarian love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who regards the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist as only the metaphorical, and not the physical, body and blood of Jesus.
  • noun One who emphasizes the importance of sacraments as a means to grace; a sacramentalist.
  • adjective Of or relating to Sacramentarians.
  • adjective Of or relating to sacramentalism or sacramentalists.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sacramentary; pertaining to a sacrament or sacraments.
  • Pertaining to sacramentarians.
  • noun One who holds that the sacraments are mere outward signs not connected with any spiritual grace.
  • noun A sacramentalist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.
  • noun (Eccl.) A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy eucharist.
  • noun One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Christianity One of the German reformers who rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holy Eucharist.
  • noun Christianity One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.
  • adjective Of or pertaining a sacrament, or to the sacramentals; sacramental.
  • adjective Christianity Of or pertaining to the Sacramentarians.

Etymologies

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From Late Latin sacramentarius, compare French sacramentaire

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