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communicant Definition

com·mu·ni·cant (kə myo̵̅o̅′ni kənt)

noun

  1. a person who receives Holy Communion or belongs to a church that celebrates this sacrament
  2. Rare a person who communicates information; informant

Etymology: < L communicans, prp.: see communicate

adjective

Rare communicating
communicant Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • have: He resided on his benefice & had 100 communicants & more.
  • intend: It can only be of profit then to learn how Boston dealt with intending communicants.
  • contain: In 162 7 the parish contained two hundred communicants, with no school, while it had great need of one.

Preposition: at

  • church: Number of communicants at the parish church, about 100.

Adjective modifier

  • male: The minister derives his stipend, £ 80, from the seat-rents and collections, under the patronage of the male communicants.
  • regular: The question is not, " have you been baptized or are you a regular communicant?
  • new: I leave the reader to conjure up how daunting this was to two impressionable new communicants!

Modifies a noun

  • membership: Thus they will take their place in the communicant membership of Christ's Church, given to them at their Baptism.
  • member: Visitors from other churches who are full communicant members in their churches are welcomed to our Lord's table.
  • figure: In the twenty years between 1991 & 2011 both our Christmas communicant figures and our Average Attendance figures would have fallen by half.
  • roll: Communicant roll no longer a gamble 30 December 2002 Is your parish Communicants ' Roll always out of date?
  • status: All baptized persons or those who have communicant status in their own denomination are always welcome to receive Holy Communion.

Preposition: in

  • parish: In 1547 there were 270 communicants in the parish of Hayes.