communicant

communicant (plural communicants)

1. A person who receives (or is allowed to receive the elements (i.e., bread and wine) of) the sacrament of Holy Communion (compare also the terms: communion, Communion, Lord’s Supper, Mass, Eucharist, Divine Liturgy).
   • Atterbury

     A never-failing monthly communicant.

2. One who communicates.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)

   • 2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians (page 215)

     These cyberforums are asynchronous; that is, contributors post (i.e., publish a text message) without the need for fellow communicants to be online at the same time.

communicant (not comparable)

1. Communicating.
   • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

     The co-eternal Son of the living God, incarnate, tempted, crucified, resurgent, communicant of his spirit, ascendant, and obtaining for his church the descent of the Holy Ghost.

communicant (feminine singular communicante, masculine plural communicants, feminine plural communicantes)

1. communicating.

   vases communicants (communicating vessels)

commūnicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of commūnicō