postcommunion
English
Etymology
post- + communion
Noun
postcommunion (plural postcommunions)
- The concluding portion of the communion service.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.
Adjective
postcommunion (not comparable)
- After communion.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for postcommunion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)