co-standern.

1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II 51 With these were the συνισταμενοι, co-standers..who had their places amongst the communicants..but were not admitted to the Holy Mysteries till the time of their penance was compleated.

a1773 A. Butler Moveable Feasts Catholic Church (1774) 317 The fourth Class of Penitents were the Consistents, or Co-standers.

1826 J. Connell Forlorn Case Popery! 137 The Costanders had their place amongst the Communicants, with this difference, that they were not admitted to the Holy Communion until the time of their Penance was completed.

1862 J. Thrupp Anglo-Saxon Home x. 253 The stages of penance and the orders of penitents which occupy so many folios of early catholic doctrine, the several ranks of weepers, hearers, substrators, and costanders..were never known here.

1938 J. T. McNeill & H. M. Gamer Medieval Handbks. Penance vi. 306 Penitents who communicate without oblation are the συνισταμενοι, or co-standers.

1984 W. H. C. Frend Rise of Christianity xii. 411 After up to ten years of exclusion, the penitent might gain a place in the ranks of the Co-standers.

2008 A. Skotnicki Criminal Justice & Catholic Church iv. 78 St. Basil recommended that one guilty of willful murder be sentenced to twenty years penance: four years with the weepers, five with the hearers, seven as a prostrator, and the final four years as a co-stander.