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communion

/kuh-myoon-yuhn/US // kəˈmyun yən //UK // (kəˈmjuːnjən) //

圣餐,圣餐会,共融,圣餐仪式

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called Holy Communion. Ecclesiastical. the act of receiving the Eucharistic elements.the elements of the Eucharist.the celebration of the Eucharist.the antiphon sung at a Eucharistic service.
    • : a group of persons having a common religious faith; a religious denomination: Anglican communion.
    • : association; fellowship.
    • : interchange or sharing of thoughts or emotions; intimate communication: communion with nature.
    • : the act of sharing, or holding in common; participation.
    • : the state of things so held.

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Examples

  • I think fat is delicious, fats are one of the communion elements.

  • All of them were meant to help people feel a sense of communion with something greater than themselves.

  • He gets drunk on communion wine and stumbles through the Eucharist.

  • When I was a kid, watching the bowl of sujeonggwa disappear into individual cups felt as ceremonious as bowing before our ancestors and elders, intentioned as taking communion in church.

  • Again, that pre-communion questionnaire sin litmus test might prove handy.

  • In fact, the communion conundrum highlights the first visible fissure in the church of Francis.

  • For close to two thousand years, Christians have been taking Holy Communion.

  • But to these people, it's a religious rite ranked right up there with First Communion—or Mardi Gras.

  • The primary motivation is communion with your fellow human beings.

  • This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.

  • The central ceremony of the confarreatio was an act partly of sacrifice, partly, one might almost say, of communion.

  • Some are constantly being added, others are removed from her communion on earth, but her characteristic absolute identity remains.

  • The privileges enjoyed by the children of those in communion with the Church, manifest them to be under obligation.

  • All who are not in the communion of the true Church, are exposed to the wrath threatened against those who are far from God.