sacramental manduction

1. 1.

   the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist

   “the governor took Communion with the rest of the congregation”

   SynonymsCommunionHoly Communionmanduction

   Broaderritual

   Narrowerintercommunion

   Part ofHoly Eucharist

Questions about sacramental manduction

What does sacramental manduction mean?

sacramental manduction means "the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist".

What is another word for sacramental manduction?

Close synonyms include Communion, Holy Communion, manduction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sacramental manduction a common word?

sacramental manduction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.