Meaning of COMMUNICANT
| Pronunciation: | | ku'myoonukunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person entitled to receive Communion |
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\Com*mu"ni*cant\, n. [L. communicans, p. pr.]
1. One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the
sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member.
A never-failing monthly communicant. --Atterbury.
2. One who communicates. --Foxe.
\Com*mu"ni*cant\, a.
Communicating. [R.] --Coleridge.
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| | Related Terms: | | accepter, adorer, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, beadsman, believer, brother, catechumen, celebrant, channel, chapelgoer, Christian, church member, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, churchwoman, communicator, congregation, convert, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple, enlightener, evangelist, expert witness, fanatic, follower, God-fearing man, good Christian, gossipmonger, grapevine, idolater, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, laic, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, monitor, mouthpiece, neophyte, newsmonger, notifier, parishioner, petitioner, pietist, prayer, press, proselyte, public relations officer, publisher, radio, receiver, religionist, reporter, revivalist, saint, secular, sister, source, spokesman, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, television, teller, theist, tipster, tout, truster, venerator, votary, witness, worshiper, zealot |
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