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Word Meanings - COMMUNION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone. 2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes,

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1. The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone. 2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints. We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South. 3. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion. 4. The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion. Close communion. See under Close, a. -- Communion elements, the bread and wine used in the celebration of the Lord's supper. -- Communion service, the celebration of the Lord's supper, or the office or service therefor. -- Communion table, the table upon which the elements are placed at the celebration of the Lord's supper. -- Communion in both kinds, participation in both the bread and wine by all communicants. -- Communion in one kind, participation in but one element, as in the Roman Catholic Church, where the laity partake of the bread only. Syn. -- Share; participation; fellowship; converse; intercourse; unity; concord; agreement.

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  • ASSOCIATION
    1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
  • ASSOCIATIONIST
    One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • SOCIALITY
    The quality of being social; socialness.
  • INTERCOURSE
    A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
  • PARTICIPATION
    1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of
  • ASSOCIATIONISM
    The doctrine or theory held by associationists.
  • SOCIETY
    1. The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company. "Her loved society." Milton. There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its roar. Byron. 2. Connection; participation;
  • COMMUNITY
    1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing. 2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests,
  • ASSOCIATIONAL
    1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. 2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists.
  • COMMUNION
    1. The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone. 2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes,
  • COMPANIONSHIP
    Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one. Shak. He never seemed to avail himself of my sympathy other than by mere companionship. W. Irwing
  • SODALITY
    Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes. (more info) 1. A fellowship or fraternity; a brotherhood.
  • COMPANY
    A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States 100 men. (more info) 1. The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompaying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly
  • COLLECTION
    1. The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens. 2. That which is collected; as: A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons. "A collection of letters." Macaulay. A gathering of money for charitable
  • CONNECTION
    1. The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship. He denied the possibility of a known connection between cause and effect. Whewell. The eternal and inserable connection between virtue
  • COLLECTIONAL
    Of or pertaining to collecting. The first twenty-five must have been wasted for collectional purposes. H. A. Merewether.
  • INTERCOMMUNION
    Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
  • TRUST COMPANY
    Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • BENEFIT SOCIETY
    A society or association formed for mutual insurance, as among tradesmen or in labor unions, to provide for relief in sickness, old age, and for the expenses of burial. Usually called friendly society in Great Britain.
  • EXCOMMUNION
    . A shutting out from communion; excommunication. Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton.
  • DELTA CONNECTION
    One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • DISCOMPANY
    To free from company; to dissociate. It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.
  • GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
    Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
  • MISRECOLLECTION
    Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
  • POSTCOMMUNION
    The concluding portion of the communion service.

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