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non-coˈmmunicant, n. (a.)
[non- 2.]
One who is not a communicant or does not communicate (e.g. at a particular service); in the 17th c. often spec., one who did not communicate according to the rites of the Church of England.
1602R. T. Five Godlie Serm. 146 As for the common sort of them, which are contemptuous recusants and Non communicants. 1642Act Gen. Assemb. Ch. Scot. (1682) 120 The Assembly would enjoin every Presbyterie to proceed against Non-communicants, whether Papists or others, according to the Act of Parliament made thereanent. 1690Norris Beatitudes (1694) I. 115 There is such a thing as an Unworthy Non-Communicant, as well as an Unworthy Communicant. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 89. 2/1 Persons, who have been hitherto Non-Communicants. 1855Scudamore Comm. Laity 65 The other non-communicants being dismissed by the proclamation of the deacon. 1864(title), The Pastor to the Non-communicant. 1876Prayer-bk. Interleaved 169 Non-communicants then left the quire.
b. adj. Not communicating.
1901Westm. Gaz. 6 June 8/1 The idea of a non-communicant people was a mediæval corruption.
So non-coˈmmunicating vbl. n. (also attrib.) and ppl. a.
1691Baxter Nat. Ch. xiv. 60 All the Parish Churches are to distinguish Communicating Members from Non-communicating Inhabitants. 1861J. E. Vaux Pres. Whole Congreg. Holy Euch. 5 Such non-communicating attendance was agreeable to..those divines who had the chief share in the construction of the Book of Common Prayer. 1917A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God iii. 57 It is impossible to treat the world of religious belief and the world of fact..as if they were two non-communicating spheres. 1960K. Amis New Maps of Hell (1961) i. 20 Some excellent stories have been written about non-communicating aliens, from The War of the Worlds onwards. 1972Where May–June 158/2 The parent who protested that her LEA was sending her non-communicating child 200 miles away from home and so she would not be able to visit, when the child could not write or use a phone, had a real case. |