communicant

[kuh-myoo-ni-kuhnt]

noun

1. a person who partakes or is entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church.

2. a person who communicates.

adjective

1. communicating; imparting.

communicant

/ kəˈmjuːnɪkənt /

noun

1. Christianity a person who receives Communion

2. a person who communicates or informs

adjective

1. communicating

Other Word Forms

• postcommunicant adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of communicant¹

1545–55; < Latin commūnicant- (stem of commūnicāns ), equivalent to commūnic ( āre ) to share with ( communicate ) + -ant- -ant

Example Sentences

So what did this new-old Willie Nelson sound like as he spent his birthday weekend floating on the adulation of friends, kin, communicants and apostles?

From Washington Post

In a 2008 interview with C-SPAN, Ms. Pelosi described herself as a “regular communicant” and said that if she were ever denied communion, “that would be a severe blow to me.”

From New York Times

Known to friends and family as Lily, she was taken to church from a young age by her father, a daily communicant.

From Washington Post

He took to Corbett’s plain-spoken approach that Rogers called “bare-knuckle theology” and has been a daily communicant since.

From Washington Post

Archbishop John C. Wester in Santa Fe has forbade communicants from taking the communion wafer on the tongue.

From Washington Times