church communionn.

1603 H. Clapham Three Partes Salomon Song of Songs Expounded i. xiii. 72 In Church-Communion; God and Man are considered at one, and in Christ made one.

1653 R. Baxter Christian Concord 34 So high a penalty as exclusion from Church-Communion.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 138 Yet for all this Gospel Union, And outward shew of Church Communion, They'ld ne'er admit us to our shares.

1720 S. Downes Abridgm. Controv. between Church of Eng. & New Pseudo-primitives (1722) p. x I..hope..never to be so far a Partaker in Schism, as to join with you in this unhappy Breach of Church-Communion.

1796 T. Knowles Advice to Young Clergyman 37 The Catholic doctrine of the Trinity..was the chief term of church-communion.

1846 B. R. Hall Something for Every Body xi. 55 It seems..very plausible, to debar all slaveholders and all dealers in ardent spirits from church communion.

1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonicastle x. 172 I should regard it as one of the sweetest satisfactions of my life to have my child with me in church communion.

1922 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics XII. 776/1 Men conceive of a Catholic worship, within a reunited Church communion, that shall be inclusive of the genius and the more essential methods of ‘Catholicism’ and ‘Evangelicalism’.

1953 J. Moynihan Life Abp. J. Ireland xii. 282 He had never..appointed anyone to office on the grounds of his membership in any church communion.

2002 P. D. L. Avis Anglicanism & Christian Church (rev. ed.) iv. 99 What then are these fundamentals which heretics and schismatics either deny or add to and in so doing force a break in church communion?