intercommunionn.

a1761 Bp. E. Law Consid. State World ii. (R.) To prevent any intimate connections, or..an entire intercommunion with the idolatrous religions round them.

1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church Pref. p. iv Unity and intercommunion of the various branches of the visible church of Christ.

1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. III. xix. 371 The Reformation had suspended religious intercommunion.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 57 The incomprehensibility..of intercommunion between substances that have no one property in common.

1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues II. 367 When all these studies reach the point of intercommunion and connection with one another.

1872 H. Macmillan True Vine vi. 259 There is nothing to hinder the intercommunion of vital substances and impulses between the branch and the vine.

1921 Spectator 26 Mar. 391/2 I should be glad to see inter-communion, but not, under present circumstances, inter-celebration.

1931 W. Temple Thoughts on Probl. of Day iii. 99 It is perfectly clear that the authors of the Memorandum never contemplated such action as formal Intercommunion.

1936 A. M. Ramsey Gospel & Catholic Ch. i. 8 To the one ‘intercommunion’ is meaningless without unity of outward order; to the other ‘intercommunion’ seems the one sensible and Christian way towards unity.

1966 Church of Eng. Newspaper 3 June The laity expressing disquiet at what may generically be described as ‘acts of inter~communion’.

1971 World Council of Churches: Faith & Order, Louvain 63 The whole area of question has generally been referred to in the past as the question of ‘intercommunion’, but that one word cannot cover the whole range and has become seriously ambiguous. It will be better to find terms which can exactly describe the different practices and their ecclesiological significance, among which the term ‘intercommunion’ may find its precise and particular place.

1973 Times 17 May 21/3 (heading) Bishops a stumbling block in intercommunion talks.