Dictionary

concelebrate en · VERB

Etymology

From con- + celebrate.

Meanings

1. To celebrate along with others
   • Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […] 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6:
2. To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant.
   • We had been told before the service that we were invited to move up to the altar if we wanted to concelebrate. 2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net:
   • A blog explaining the decision cited the shrine’s policy that women priests are not permitted to celebrate or concelebrate the eucharist there. 2020 September 11, Maddy Fry, “Priest Associate of Walsingham resigns after compromises over women priests fail”, in Church Times:
3. (broadly, of a newly ordained priest) To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant. ▸ To celebrate the Eucharist along with the bishop who ordained them.

Forms

Relateds

concelebration

Translations (4)

pl koncelebrować (celebrate the Eucharist together as a concelebrant) · la concelebrare (celebrate the Eucharist together as a concelebrant) · fr concélébrer (celebrate the Eucharist together as a concelebrant) · it concelebrare (celebrate the Eucharist together as a concelebrant)