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 Words From

• postcom·muni·cant 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

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

“Though if birdwatching were a religion,” added Atwood, who spent part of her childhood in the backwoods of Quebec, ”I’d have been the blase communicant who’d grown up in it and performed its rituals because that’s what our people do, and Graeme would have been the new convert, smitten with blinding light on the road to Damascus.”

From Washington Times

“Though if birdwatching were a religion,” added Atwood, who spent part of her childhood in the backwoods of Quebec, ”I’d have been the blase communicant who’d grown up in it and performed its rituals because that’s what our people do, and Graeme would have been the new convert, smitten with blinding light on the road to Damascus.”

From Seattle Times