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Eucharistize en · VERB

Etymology

From Eucharist + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To bless or consecrate in memory of Christ; To prepare as the Eucharist.
   • The effect of this consecration is to Eucharistize — that is, convert, refashion, transmute — the physical reality of bread and wine into that sacred reality which is the glorified God-Man. 1997, Richard Foley, Mary and the Eucharist, page 44:
   • And are not the Blessings of God the Father conveyed by the Holy Ghost? To Eucharistize or Bless the Elements is, therefore, in other words, to pray for the Descent of the Holy Ghost. 1917, William John Sparrow-Simpson, The Prayer of Consecration, page 74:
   • The affinities between Guroian and Cavanaugh are, perhaps, best summed up in Cavanaugh's declaration that the “point is not to politicize the Eucharist, but to 'Eucharistize' the world.” 2012, Aristotle Papanikolaou, The Mystical as Political:

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