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communicant

/kuh-myoo-ni-kuhnt/US // kəˈmyu nɪ kənt //UK // (kəˈmjuːnɪkənt) //

圣餐者,传道人,传道者,圣徒

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church.
    • : a person who communicates.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : communicating; imparting.

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Examples

  • 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.