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noun

Communion n.

1.

The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods."

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." "What communion hath light with darkness?" "Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man."

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; 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.

Synonyms: Share; participation; fellowship; converse; intercourse; unity; concord; agreement.

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... went from her reception-room to her ante-room, where there was an altar set up and arranged, at which, before he had been taken from her, her chaplain used to say mass; and kneeling on the steps, surrounded by all her servants, she began the communion prayers, and when they were ended, drawing from a golden box a host consecrated by Pius V, which she had always scrupulously preserved for the occasion of her death, she told Bourgoin to take it, and, as he was ...

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... returned to Alexandria from his banishment, proud of his sufferings and furious against those who had escaped through cowardice. But the larger part of the bishops were of a more forgiving nature; they could not all boast of the same constancy, and the repentant Christians were re-admitted into communion with the faithful, while the followers of Meletius were branded ...

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... and religious aim which he had assigned to his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a hole in which to bury his name. That which he had always feared most of all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would be the end of all things for him; that on the day when that name made its reappearance it would cause his new life to ...

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... of the movement of the ice that in forty-five years the body will be carried to the end of the glacier. Thereafter she regards her husband as absent but not lost, and lives her life in continuous imagined communion with him. At the end of the allotted time, she returns and finds his body. She is then a woman in her sixties; but her husband is, in aspect, still a boy of twenty-one. She has dreamt of him as growing old beside her: she finds him sundered from her by half a century of change.—Even in ...

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