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Communion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Fellowship; intercourse between two persons or more; interchange of transactions, or offices; a state of giving and receiving; agreement; concord.

2. We are naturally led to seek communion and fellowship with other.

3. What communion hath light with darkness? 2 Corinthians 6:14 .

4. Mutual intercourse or union in religious worship, or in doctrine and discipline.

5. The Protestant churches have no communion with the Romish church.

6. The body of Christians who have one common faith and discipline. The three grand communions into which the Christian church is divided, are those of the Greek, the Romish and the Protestant churches.

7. The act of communicating the sacrament of the Eucharist; the celebration of the Lords supper; the participation of the blessed sacrament. The fourth council of Lateran decrees that every believer shall receive the communion at least at Easter.

8. Union of professing Christians in a particular church; as, members in full communion

9. COMMUNION -service, in the liturgy of the Episcopal church, is the office for the administration of the holy sacrament.

Communion [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of sharing; community; participation.

2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints.

3. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion.

4. The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion.

Communion Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

in a religious sense, refers chiefly to the admission of persons to the Lord’s Supper. This is said to be open, when all are admitted who apply, as in the Church of England; to be strict, when confined to the members of a single society, or, at least, to members of the same denomination; and it is mixed, when persons are admitted from societies of different denominations, on the profession of their faith, and evidence of their piety. The principal difficulty on this point arises between the strict Baptists and Pædo-Baptists.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
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