postcommunion
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin postcommūniō. By surface analysis, post- + communion.
Noun[edit]
postcommunion (plural postcommunions)
- The concluding portion of the communion service.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.
Adjective[edit]
postcommunion (not comparable)
- After communion.
Further reading[edit]
- “postcommunion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.