communionistn.
/kəˈmjuːnɪənɪst/, U.S. /kəˈmjunjənəst/ 1. † b. A person who takes Communion, a communicant. Obsolete. rare.
a. With preceding modifying adjective, as close communionist, strict communionist, open communionist, free communionist, etc. A person (esp. a Baptist) holding a particular view on the eligibility of worshippers to receive Communion (see communion n. 3a).
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1825 S. Stennett Mem. Life Rev. William Ward v. 244 The strict communionist..ought, on his own principles, to shut out Doddridge from communion.
1847 United Presbyterian Mag. Mar. 117/2 The free communionist says, free communion is the principle of my church, and it must be binding upon all.
1884 Spurgeon in Christian Commonw. 1 May 692/3 As compared with the bulk of English Baptists I am a strict communionist myself, as my Church fellowship is strictly of the baptised.
1914 D. Burkholder in D. Kauffman Bible Doctr. v. ii. 396 ‘I commune with God, not with man,’ says the open communionist. If that is the case, then why not admit polygamists..and all other evil classes to the communion?
1938 J. C. Archer Faiths Men Live By i. 13 Some faiths may be more tolerant in worship than in creed—or quite the contrary, as in Islam, or any ‘close communionists’.
1999 Baptist Hist. & Heritage (Nexis) 22 June 67 After he proved that Spurgeon was wrong to invite unbaptized persons to the Lord's table, he proceeded to enlist him as a close communionist.
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > participant
sacramenter1536
communer1548
communicant1552
communionist1851
1644 J. Dury Epist. Disc. 41 Most of the scrupulosities of the non-communionists may be resolved thereby.]
1851 S. Judd Margaret (rev. ed.) II. iii. 243 Many of the children are communionists.
1865 London Rev. 30 Dec. 711/1 The Old School Presbyterians of the North insist that their fellow communionists of the South should repudiate their errors.
2. An advocate of or participant in communal living; a communist, a socialist; spec. = Owenite n.1 Cf. communional adj. 2. Now historical and rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > non-Marxist or Leninist communism > involving socialistic communities > adherent of
Owenite1826
communionist1827
phalansterian1840
societary1841
Fourierist1843
Fourierite1844
Owenist1849
utopian socialist1849
Icarian1865
phalansterist1882
1827 Co-operative Mag. Nov. 509 The chief question..between the modern,..Political Economists, and the Communionists or Socialists, is whether it is more beneficial that this capital should be individual or in common.
1846 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Times & People Press 19 Dec. 1/1 John A. Collins is a name that..has been familiar to the public ear as an abolition lecturer, a Socialist or Communionist.
1934 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Grey Granite i. 40 The place was littered with Reds, fair daft, the Communionists the worst of the lot.
1961 W. H. G. Armytage Heavens Below viii. 155 The communionists had already repaid William Hodson £600 of the money he had loaned them.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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