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Communion

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What's The Definition Of Communion?
[n] the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist; "the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation"
[n] sharing thoughts and feelings [n] (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites Synonyms | Synonyms for Communion: Holy Communion | manduction | sacramental manduction | sharing Related Terms | Find terms related to Communion: accord | accordance | adherents | affiliation | affinity | agape | Agnus Dei | agreement | aid prayer | Alleluia | altar bread | amity | Anamnesis | Angelus | answer | appeal | Ave | Ave Maria | balance | beadroll | beads | beseechment | bidding prayer | Blessing | body | Bolshevik | Bolshie | bonds of harmony | branch | bread | bread and wine | breviary | brotherly love | Canon | caritas | cement of friendship | chaplet | charity | church | class | coequality | Collect | collective farm | collectivism | collectivity | collegiality | colloquial discourse | colloquy | commerce | commie | common ownership | communal effort | communication | communism | Communist | community | community of interests | compatibility | comrade | concord | concordance | confession | congeniality | congress | connection | consecrated bread | consecrated elements | Consecration | consubstantiation | contact | contemplation | conversation | converse | conversing | cooperation | cooperative society | corelation | correlation | correlativism | correlativity | correspondence | Credo | creed | cult | dealing | dealings | democracy | denomination | devotions | disciples | discourse | Dismissal | division | elements | empathy | entreaty | Epistle | equilibrium | equipollence | equivalence | ESP | esprit | esprit de corps | Eucharist | exchange | faction | faith | feeling of identity | fellow feeling | fellow traveler | fellowship | followers | Fraction | frictionlessness | give-and-take | Gloria | good vibes | good vibrations | Gospel | grace | Gradual | group | Hail Mary | happy family | harmony | Holy Communion | Host | identity | impanation | impetration | imploration | information | interaction | intercession | interchange | intercommunication | intercommunion | intercourse | interlocution | interplay | intinction | Introit | inverse proportion | inverse ratio | inverse relationship | invocation | ism | kibbutz | kinship | kolkhoz | Kyrie | Kyrie Eleison | Last Gospel | Last Supper | Lavabo | Leninist | like-mindedness | linguistic intercourse | litany | loaf | love | Marxist | meditation | message | mutuality | obsecration | obtestation | Offertory | offshoot | oneness | order | organization | orison | party | Paternoster | Pax | peace | persuasion | petition | pink | pinko | Post-Communion | prayer | prayer wheel | Preface | profit sharing | proportionality | public ownership | rapping | rapport | rapprochement | real presence | reciprocality | reciprocation | reciprocity | Red | relativity | religious order | reply | response | rogation | rosary | Sacrament Sunday | Sanctus | schism | school | Secreta | sect | sectarism | segment | sharecropping | sharing | silent prayer | social activity | social intercourse | social relations | socialism | society | solidarity | speaking | speech | speech circuit | speech situation | Stalinist | state ownership | subpanation | suit | supplication | symmetry | sympathy | symphony | talking | team spirit | telepathy | Tersanctus | thanks | thanksgiving | the Holy Sacrament | the Sacrament | touch | town meeting | Tract | traffic | transubstantiation | Trotskyist | truck | two-way communication | understanding | union | unison | unity | variety | verbal intercourse | version | wafer See Also | denomination | Eucharist | Eucharistic liturgy | Holy Sacrament | intercommunion | intercourse | Liturgy | Lord's Supper | ritual | sacrament of the Eucharist | social intercourse Communion In Webster's Dictionary \Com*mun"ion\, n. [L. communio: cf. F. communion. See
{Common}.]
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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