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communicant

[ kuh-myoo-ni-kuhnt ]

noun

  1. a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church.
  2. a person who communicates.


adjective

  1. communicating; imparting.

communicant

/ °ìəˈ³¾Âá³Ü˲Ôɪ°ìÉ™²Ô³Ù /

noun

  1. Christianity a person who receives Communion
  2. a person who communicates or informs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. communicating
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of communicant1

1545–55; < Latin ³¦´Ç³¾³¾Å«²Ô¾±³¦²¹²Ô³Ù- (stem of ³¦´Ç³¾³¾Å«²Ô¾±³¦Äå²Ô²õ ), equivalent to ³¦´Ç³¾³¾Å«²Ô¾±³¦ ( Äå°ù±ð ) to share with ( communicate ) + -ant- -ant
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So what did this new-old Willie Nelson sound like as he spent his birthday weekend floating on the adulation of friends, kin, communicants and apostles?

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In a 2008 interview with C-SPAN, Ms. Pelosi described herself as a “regular communicant†and said that if she were ever denied communion, “that would be a severe blow to me.â€

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Known to friends and family as Lily, she was taken to church from a young age by her father, a daily communicant.

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He took to Corbett’s plain-spoken approach that Rogers called “bare-knuckle theology†and has been a daily communicant since.

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Archbishop John C. Wester in Santa Fe has forbade communicants from taking the communion wafer on the tongue.

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