Find the word definition

Crossword clues for communicant

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
communicant
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A government or religion prescribes and imposes sanctions selected by their effectiveness in controlling citizen or communicant.
▪ Here only eight of the 3,000 communicants were Nonconformists.
▪ This prayer asks the Father to make all the communicants one by the action of the Spirit. 8.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Communicant

Communicant \Com*mu"ni*cant\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*kant), a. Communicating. [R.]
--Coleridge.

Communicant

Communicant \Com*mu"ni*cant\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*kant), 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.

Wiktionary
communicant

a. Communicating. n. 1 A person who receives (or is allowed to receive) the sacrament of Holy Communion 2 One who communicates.

WordNet
communicant

n. a person entitled to receive Communion

Usage examples of "communicant".

A Communicant made up the party, gowned in brocade, hazed by a blur of entoptic projections.

Jeremiah and Stavros were returning from an all-night service at the home of one of their new communicants, a well-to-do hotelkeeper who lived in the wealthier part of the city, near the palace.

Now, would you know for yourself, like the communicant who came to me in my sleep, how you are ever to get past all those arbours, and settles, and seats, and couches, with all their sweet sorceries and intoxicating enchantments--would you in earnest know that?

Venetian Bloodor the Jaybird sacrament, though the Jaybirds nearly never let strangers see any of their very badly eroded communicants.

For never surely had a young communicant less to go upon than Mercy had that best morning of all her life.

Quellen thought of the case he had studied only an hour or so back, of the earnest communicant who had slipped pseudoliving glass into the alimentary canals of his fellow worshippers and then had watched them die in agony.

The priest known as the jaybush, for during administration of the sacrament he was supposed to become an actual, literal extension of the Messiah, Norton Jaybush himselfmoved down the line, pausing in front of each communicant just long enough to touch him or her on the forehead.

Lactantius had never questioned me about my faith, but he knew that I was not a communicant of his church, and Crispus had confided to me that his tutor worried about the state of my soul.

Judith had not chosen to dress in the piously self-effacing manner that most communicants of this cult preferred.

Rivas smiled, remembering his response to his first taking of the Jaybird sacramentwhile the rest of the recovering communicants had been praising the Lord Jaybush and making sure they knew when the sacrament would be administered again so as not to miss it, young Gregorio Rivas, though stunned, exhausted and glad to have found shelter and company, was coldly appraising the situation.

It seemed to be a typical bandmostly young people, their faces ranging in expression from the timid optimism of the new recruit through the sunny confidence of those who, like the girl that had snagged him, had been with the faith for a while, to the vacuous inattention of a couple of long time communicants, on whose faces the obligatory smile sat like a welcome mat in front of an abandoned house.

Some of the newer Jaybirds looked embarrassed or angry as they plodded their winding course through this irreverent gauntlet, but the smiles on the faces of Sister Sue, Rivas, and the several deteriorated communicants never faltered.

The white-robed figure of the jaybush had been walking toward the center of the field at a slightly quicker pace than the tightening ring of communicants, and just before shoulder to shoulder contact caused the ring to stop shrinking he slipped between a couple of them and then made his way to the very center.

Perhaps the main complaint the average prostitute runner had about the universe was the fact that female communicants, unlike the less readily saleable males, never did reach the placid, tractable far-gone stage, and in order to be used had to be regularly tranquilized with doses of Blood.

I noted a good many Defenders and ample representation of such lesser guilds as Vendors, Servitors, Manufactories, Scribes, Communicants, and Transporters.