Word Meanings - HOUSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The eucharist. Rom. of R. Tennyson.
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- EUCHARIST
The sacrament of the Lord's Supper; the solemn act of ceremony of commemorating the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See Sacrament. (more info) 1. The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving. - EUCHARISTIC; EUCHARISTICAL
1. Giving thanks; expressing thankfulness; rejoicing. The eucharistical part of our daily devotions. Ray. 2. Pertaining to the Lord's Supper. "The eucharistic sacrament." Sir. G. C. Lewis. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.