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Communion
COMMUNION, n.
1. Fellowship; intercourse between two persons or more; interchange of transactions, or offices; a state of giving and receiving; agreement; concord.
We are naturally led to seek communion and fellowship with other.
What communion hath light with darkness? 2 Cor 6.
2. Mutual intercourse or union in religious worship, or in doctrine and discipline.
The Protestant churches have no communion with the Romish church.
3. The body of Christians who have one common faith and discipline. The three grand communions into which the Christian church is divided, are those of the Greek, the Romish and the Protestant churches.
4. The act of communicating the sacrament of the Eucharist; the celebration of the Lords supper; the participation of the blessed sacrament. The fourth council of Lateran decrees that every believer shall receive the communion at least at Easter.
5. Union of professing Christians in a particular church; as, members in full communion.
Communion-service, in the liturgy of the Episcopal church, is the office for the administration of the holy sacrament.
communion appears in definitions for these words:
Agape Altar Breviary Calice Canonical Catholic Censure Chaldron Chancel Church-member Close Commune Communion Concord Consecration Corporas Deacon Dissenting Epistler Exclude Excommunicate Excommunicated Excommunicating Excommunication Experimental Fellowship Incommunicating Incommunicative Intercommunion Interdict Non-communion Novatian Offertory Propound Quaff Recusant Sacrament Scession Schismatize Secede Seceder Seceding Table Viaticum Walk
Agape Altar Breviary Calice Canonical Catholic Censure Chaldron Chancel Church-member Close Commune Communion Concord Consecration Corporas Deacon Dissenting Epistler Exclude Excommunicate Excommunicated Excommunicating Excommunication Experimental Fellowship Incommunicating Incommunicative Intercommunion Interdict Non-communion Novatian Offertory Propound Quaff Recusant Sacrament Scession Schismatize Secede Seceder Seceding Table Viaticum Walk
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