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eucharistize en · VERB

Etymology

From Eucharist + -ize.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To give thanks to God and remember Christ by communal activity, especially by eating and drinking the bread and wine of the Eucharist; to share in communion.
   • On the Day of the Lord , gather together , break bread and eucharistize , after confessing your sins , so that your offering may be pure . 1971, David Ayerst, Arthur Stanley Theodore Fisher, Records of Christianity - Volume 1, page 57:
   • Seeing Christians' inability to eucharistize together as 'an outright denial of Christ and of God's saving plan for the unity of mankind . . . is a strong theological argument which actively urges intercommunion.' 1973, One in Christ - Volumes 9-10, page 120:
   • To sleep, to eat, to accept interruption, to be concerned, to be patient, to be honest, to be available, to be cheerful, to be humble, to be compassionate, to be, is to “eucharistize." 1968, Arthur Anton Vogel, Is the Last Supper finished?: Secular light on a sacred meal, page 87:
2. (alt-of, alternative, transitive) Alternative form of Eucharistize.
   alt of Eucharistize
   • The very mission of the church is to eucharistize the material creation. 2014, Michael S. Northcott, Peter M. Scott, Systematic Theology and Climate Change: Ecumenical Perspectives:
   • the second concerns the prescription for everyone to eucharistize his own cup. 1993, Jean Magné, From Christianity to gnosis and from gnosis to Christianity, page 25:
   • The Word of God gave flesh and blood to Christ; the Word of God eucharistizes the bread and wine. 2013, Owen F. Cummings, Eucharist and Ecumenism:

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