Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for purificator. Search instead for Sacrificator.

purificator

American  
[pyoor-uh-fi-key-ter] / ˈpyʊər ə fɪˌkeɪ tər /

noun

Ecclesiastical.

  1. the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.

  2. a sponge wrapped in cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the hands.

purificator British  
/ ˈpjʊərɪfɪˌkeɪtə /

noun

  1. Christianity a small white linen cloth used to wipe the chalice and paten and also the lips and fingers of the celebrant at the Eucharist

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of purificator

1850–55; < Latin pūrificā ( re ) to purify + -tor -tor

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.