Crossword clues for celebrant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Celebrant \Cel"e*brant\, n. [L. celebrans, p. pr. of celebrare. See Celebrate.] One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1731, from French célébrant "officiating clergyman" or directly from Latin celebrantem (nominative celebrans), present participle of celebrare (see celebrate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the eucharist. 2 (context Australia NZ English) A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals. 3 A person who is celebrating something.
WordNet
n. a person who is celebrating [syn: celebrator, celebrater]
an officiating priest celebrating the Eucharist
Wikipedia
Celebrant may refer to:
- Celebrant or Officiant, the leader of a liturgy or ceremony who is empowered to perform it
- Celebrant (Australia), a legally authorised conductor of weddings
- Funeral Celebrants (Civil) - a conductor of funerals for non-church people
- Humanist officiant or celebrant, the secular equivalent of a priest within many humanist organizations
Celebrant may also refer to:
- the Celebrant or Silverlode, a river in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
- a member of Celebrant USA Foundation and Institute, an organization providing non-religious ceremonial practitioners
In Australia, celebrants are people who conduct formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, which are the main ceremony of legal import conducted by celebrants. They may also conduct extra-legal ceremonies such as naming of babies, renewal of wedding vows and funerals. Officiating at a marriage requires that the celebrant be an authorised marriage celebrant under Australian law, but officiating at extra-legal ceremonies does not.
Usage examples of "celebrant".
A broad grin upon the face of Apropos the Peacelord, greeting the revelers and well-wishers and celebrants.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.
And in that indrawn moment of surprise, the celebrants found their breath, shouting with the trumpets, hailing the derring of one drunken young Prince of the Blood.
In fact, Lumen seems to me to be as dedicated a celebrant of complex inter-relationships between creatures of many different kinds as his adversary Aristocles.
Professor Webb, for several among his mongrel prisoners had repeated to him what older celebrants had told them the words meant.
Indeed the lower classes were inclined to picture them as monsters of unwholesomeness and perversion, potential murderers of little children and celebrants of various equivalents of the Black Mass.
I shook the little silver bell as Father Looney elevated the Eucharist, I tried to make the movement invisible, hoping that some of the celebrants might think the tinkle of the bell was a magic accompaniment to the miracle of transubstantiation.
Celebrant in a civil ceremony held in a restored nondenominational church set in beautiful gardens by the river.
And when the good fathers had reached the appointed place, the house of Bernard Kiernan and Co, limited, 8, 9 and 10 little Britain street, wholesale grocers, wine and brandy shippers, licensed fo the sale of beer, wine and spirits for consumption on the premises, the celebrant blessed the house and censed the mullioned windows and the groynes and the vaults and the arrises and the capitals and the pediments and the cornices and the engrailed arches and the spires and the cupolas and sprinkled the lintels thereof with blessed water and prayed that God might bless that house as he had blessed the house of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and make the angels of His light to inhabit therein.
When it was over, the celebrants drifted into the half-dozen or so shops and bistros that had opened their doors for the festivities.
Here, it would ruin the effect, making the celebrants seem like children costumed for Halloween rather than impressive bringers of the Truth.
Five or six celebrants, who looked to be children, and nearly naked, had broken from the front of the procession and were strewing a path of leaves or petals between their lord and the threshold.
There was little sign of activity until the middle of the afternoon, when the first of the celebrants arrived, slipping out of a car, crossing the sidewalk fast, and disappearing down a flight of steps that led below ground level.
The celebrants simply moved in the cradle of light as if drifting in some collective dream.
He cast the dressing aside and continued to advance towards the cradle, expecting one of the celebrants to look his way at any moment.