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communicant

[ kuh-myoo-ni-kuhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church.
a person who communicates.

communicant

/ kəˈmjuːnɪkənt /

1545–55; < Latin commūnicant- (stem of commūnicāns ), equivalent to commūnic ( āre ) to share with ( communicate ) + -ant- -ant

Another occasional communicant is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who attended Xavier High School next door.

He was here for his third time; for two years a regular communicant, having received a good deal of teaching before I knew him.

The Duke of Argyll is a seatholder and frequent communicant; and other persons of general and literary distinction.

But a year or two passes over, and the critical season arrives when our young communicant ‘comes out,’ as the word is.

What was I doing to let that so promising communicant go so far astray, and I never to go after him?

Blackbird was probably a good communicant of some wilderness mission, but this brought her no nearer to a son of Ireland.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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