The Collaborative International Dictionary
Communion \Com*mun"ion\, n. [L. communio: cf. F. communion. See Common.]
The act of sharing; community; participation. ``This communion of goods.''
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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. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.
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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; called also Holy 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.
Usage examples of "communion service".
February , -there was almost no one at the Wednesday morning communion service.
One last mocking laugh and then Spode was gone, striding back up into the sunlit world above where he played the role of a holy man, a Jonathan Wild, the spider at the centre of the web of evil, ensnaring his followers, dominating their souls and compelling them to take part in a blasphemous communion service in this beautiful little church amid the poplar trees.
He hoped that Mortimer would not refer to his presence at the communion service.
Sometimes a meal is presented almost as a communion service, and the titihoya bird seems to be a symbol for the land itself.
Everyone from the senior partners down agrees that his unsparing efforts laid the groundwork for the firm to proceed with the complex terms of the merger being negotiated between their marketing and evangelical arms but as I said earlier, this inclination of the press to turn momentous events into comical diversions pandering to the jaded tastes of their readers, anything you may read about a plan to use the soft drink in the communion service is purely a.
They did fine except during the communion service, when the younger boy held the chalice upside down so that the hosts slid out and fell to the carpet, fluttering down one by one.
There was a little table there such as held the sacred dishes for the communion service, and the little carpet-covered steps which the sexton put out for the pastor when he took the monstrance from the high-built tabernacle.