eucharistize

English

Alternative forms

eucharistise

Etymology

Eucharist +‎ -ize

Verb

eucharistize (third-person singular simple present eucharistizes, present participle eucharistizing, simple past and past participle eucharistized)

1. (intransitive) To give thanks to God and remember Christ by communal activity, especially by eating and drinking the bread and wine of the Eucharist; to share in communion.
   • 1968, Arthur Anton Vogel, Is the Last Supper finished?: Secular light on a sacred meal, page 87:

     To sleep, to eat, to accept interruption, to be concerned, to be patient, to be honest, to be available, to be cheerful, to be humble, to be compassionate, to be, is to “eucharistize."

   • 1971, David Ayerst, Arthur Stanley Theodore Fisher, Records of Christianity - Volume 1, page 57:

     On the Day of the Lord , gather together , break bread and eucharistize , after confessing your sins , so that your offering may be pure .

   • 1973, One in Christ - Volumes 9-10, page 120:

     Seeing Christians' inability to eucharistize together as 'an outright denial of Christ and of God's saving plan for the unity of mankind . . . is a strong theological argument which actively urges intercommunion.'

2. (transitive) Alternative form of Eucharistize
   • 1993, Jean Magné, From Christianity to gnosis and from gnosis to Christianity, page 25:

     the second concerns the prescription for everyone to eucharistize his own cup.

   • 2013, Owen F. Cummings, Eucharist and Ecumenism:

     The Word of God gave flesh and blood to Christ; the Word of God eucharistizes the bread and wine.

   • 2014, Michael S. Northcott, Peter M. Scott, Systematic Theology and Climate Change: Ecumenical Perspectives:

     The very mission of the church is to eucharistize the material creation.