[in-tingk-shuh
n] 
| (in a communion service) the act of steeping the bread or wafer in the wine in order to enable the communicant to receive the two elements conjointly. |
| in·tinc·tion (ĭn-tĭngk'shən) n. Ecclesiastical The administration of the Eucharist by dipping the host into the wine and thus offering both simultaneously to the communicant. [Late Latin intinctiō, intinctiōn-, a dipping in, from Latin intinctus, past participle of intingere, to dip in : in-, in; see in-2 + tingere, to moisten.] |