close-communionist
noun Ecclesiastical.
a communion service in which only members of the same denomination or the same church can participate.
Compare intercommunion, open communion.
Origin:
1815–25, Americanism
1815–25, Americanism
Related forms
close commun·ion·ist, noun
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