| 单词 | non-communicant | 
| 释义 | non-communicantn.adj. Christian Church.  A. n.   A person who does not receive communion, esp. at a particular celebration; a person who is not a communicant member of a particular Church, esp. the Church of England. Also: a person who refrains from taking communion at services of an established church (historical). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > 			[noun]		 > person not communicating non-communicant1561 non-communionist1644 society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > 			[noun]		 > because of refusal > person characterized by non-communicant1561 non-communionist1644 1561–2    Edinb. Dean of Guild Accts. in  G. Hay Archit. Sc. Post-Reformation Churches 		(1957)	 179  				Ane travis for holding forth of the non communicants. 1566    J. Martiall Treat. Crosse ii. 6  				Ægernesse in searching after bokes, and trouble in seeking after non communicants. 1598    in  J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers 		(1877)	 		(modernized text)	 3rd Ser. 283  				Recusants and non-communicants in the Ainsty:..James Thwaites, Esq., a non-communicant..George Reynold and one Geffrey, serving-men to the said James, non-communicants..Robert Shawe, gentleman, and Jane his wife, non-communicants. 1602    R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 146  				As for the common sort of them, which are contemptuous recusants and Non communicants. 1642    in  Acts Gen. Assembly Church of Scotl. 		(1843)	 56  				The Assembly would enjoyn every Presbyterie to proceed against non-communicants, whether Papists or others, according to the act of Parliament made thereanent. 1690    J. Norris Christian Blessedness 115  				There is such a thing as an Unworthy Non-Communicant, as well as an Unworthy Communicant. 1708    Brit. Apollo 15–17 Dec.  				Persons, who have been hitherto Non-Communicants. 1855    W. E. Scudamore Comm. Laity 65  				The other non-communicants being dismissed by the proclamation of the deacon. 1876    Prayer-bk. Interleaved 169  				Non-communicants then left the quire. 1886    Dict. National Biogr. VII. 403/1  				Burnet was perfectly willing that no non-communicants should be capable of bearing office. 1952    Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 24 271/1  				It seems..probable that the Christian Democratic parties would have large numbers of supporters who were not communicants... Yet these noncommunicants are in effect voting the Catholic position. 1966    Jrnl. Philos. 63 26  				The two shorter sections..will be somewhat incomprehensible to the noncommunicant of Sartrean philosophy. 1991    Guardian 		(Nexis)	 26 May 26  				His very conservative liturgical practice and more significantly his steadfast refusal to celebrate the marriages of non-communicants..made it almost impossible for him to take a normal parish.  B. adj.   Not receiving communion. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > exclusion from communion > 			[adjective]		 unhouseled1532 unreceiving1566 uncommunicant1600 non-communicating1691 non-communicant1866 1866    A. Stevens Centenary Amer. Methodism 216  				Adding three non-communicant members of its congregations for each communicant, it [sc. Methodism] has under its influence 7,604,656 souls. 1872    Catholic World Aug. 698/2  				Certain individuals classified as probationers and non-communicant adherents. 1901    Westm. Gaz. 6 June 8/1  				The idea of a non-communicant people was a mediæval corruption. 1941    E. B. Greene Relig. & State 92  				The communicant members of the church.., who were more likely to be orthodox than their noncommunicant associates. 1974    William & Mary Q. 31 471  				Their noncommunicant brethren who could not have their children baptized unless the church adopted the half-way covenant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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