Eucharist – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Eucharist
n.
Christian ceremony commemorating the last supper of Jesus and his disciples, sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Communion
Eucharist
The
Eucharist (also called
Holy Communion, the
Lord's Supper, and other names) is a
rite considered by most
Christian churches to be a
sacrament. According to the
New Testament, it was instituted by
Jesus Christ during his
Last Supper. Giving his disciples bread and wine during the
Passover meal, Jesus commanded his followers to "do this in memory of me" while referring to the bread as "my body" and the wine as "my blood". Through the Eucharistic celebration Christians remember
Christ's sacrifice of himself once and for all on the cross.
Eucharist
Noun
1. a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine
(synonym) Holy Eucharist, sacrament of the Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, Eucharistic liturgy, Lord's Supper
(hypernym) sacrament
(part-meronym) Offertory
Eucharist
(n.)
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.
(n.)
The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Eucharist
Eucharist [from Greek
eucharistia thanksgiving] Adopted in the early centuries of the Christian era for the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, because of the thanksgiving offered over the sacred elements; also applied to the elements themselves. Thus the original meaning, a manifestation of the spirit or inner god in the soul of the neophyte or adept, became degraded into a mere ceremonial rite, itself based on the ceremony of the Bacchic participation of wine and bread -- wine signifying the spirit and bread the manifested body of the spirit in matter.
See also BREAD AND WINE
