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Eucharistic, a. and n.|juːkəˈrɪstɪk|
[f. Eucharist + -ic; cf. Fr. eucharistique.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the Eucharist.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xiii. 42 The belief of the Eucharistick Bread being the real Body of Christ. a1711Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 242 Invites her to the Eucharistick Feast. 1847Disraeli Tancred v. vi, The ceremony..eternally invested with eucharistic grace. 1869Haddan Apost. Succ. viii. (1879) 232 Poison administered in the Eucharistic cup.
b. Of the nature of, or resembling, the Eucharist.
1860Westcott Introd. Study Gosp. vi. (ed. 5) 335 In this connexion the eucharistic meal at Emmaus gains a new meaning. 1877Sparrow Serm. xii. 161 The taking of food, if sanctified by religion, is eucharistic.
2. Of or pertaining to thanksgiving (occasionally with mixed notion of 1).
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 401 He [Socrates] would have an Eucharistick Sacrifice offered to him [æsculapius] in his behalf, as having now cured him at once of all diseases by Death. a1711Ken Edmund Poet. Wks. 1721 II. 372 They sang new Eucharistick Strains To glorious God. 1853J. Brown in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xviii. I. 280 It is a magnificent eucharistic ode. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 443 note, The meat-offerings were eucharistic, and the sin-offerings expiatory.
†B. n. = Eucharist 4. Obs.
1623Cockeram, Eucharisticke, a giuing of thankes. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. vii. 107 marg., An eucharistic of the exiles to Jesus Christ. |