eucharistize
English
Etymology
Eucharist + -ize
Alternative forms
eucharistise
Verb
eucharistize (third-person singular simple present eucharistizes, present participle eucharistizing, simple past and past participle eucharistized)
- (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.
- 1968, Arthur Anton Vogel, Is the Last Supper finished?: Secular light on a sacred meal, page 87:
- 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."
- 1971, David Ayerst, Arthur Stanley Theodore Fisher, Records of Christianity - Volume 1, page 57:
- On the Day of the Lord , gather together , break bread and eucharistize , after confessing your sins , so that your offering may be pure .
- 1973, One in Christ - Volumes 9-10, page 120:
- 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.'
- (transitive) Alternative form of Eucharistize
- 1993, Jean Magné, From Christianity to gnosis and from gnosis to Christianity, page 25:
- the second concerns the prescription for everyone to eucharistize his own cup.
- 2013, Owen F. Cummings, Eucharist and Ecumenism:
- The Word of God gave flesh and blood to Christ; the Word of God eucharistizes the bread and wine.
- 2014, Michael S. Northcott, Peter M. Scott, Systematic Theology and Climate Change: Ecumenical Perspectives:
- The very mission of the church is to eucharistize the material creation.