theophagousadj.
/θɪˈɒfəɡəs/ Of, pertaining to, or marked by theophagy; God-eating.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [adjective] > receiving
communicant1563
theophagous1880
communing1887
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > [adjective] > relating to belief of ingesting deity
theophagous1912
1880 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. June 762 In the bosom of a deicidal and theophagous Christianity.
1912 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 137/1 A more detailed account supplies a valuable type of such theophagous ceremonies.
Derivatives
theˈophagite n. /θɪˈɒfədʒaɪt/ (nonce-word) a God-eater (in quot. attributive).
/θɪˈɒfədʒaɪt/ (nonce-word) a God-eater (in quot. attributive).ΚΠ
1805 Monthly Mag. 20 35 The theophagite cannibalism of the communion-rite.
theˈophagy n. /θɪˈɒfədʒɪ/ (a) the eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); (b) Cultural Anthropology the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they ingest a deity with the consecrated food.
/θɪˈɒfədʒɪ/ (a) the eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); (b) Cultural Anthropology the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they ingest a deity with the consecrated food.ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > attendance or partaking of
commoningc1384
communingc1425
communion1440
perceptionc1450
sumptionc1450
sustentationc1450
manducationa1513
receipt?a1513
communicating1550
communication1550
mastication1601
theanthropophagy1654
theophagy1875
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > [noun] > eating in the belief of ingesting deity
theophagy1875
1875 A. C. Swinburne Lett. (1960) III. 49 Would the exalted privilege of theophagy be conceded to a believer in the identity of those two Beings?
1880 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. June 762 A creed..based on deicide and sustained on theophagy.
1903 G. B. Shaw Revolutionist's Handbk. viii, in Man & Superman 209 We have relapsed into disputes about transubstantiation at the very moment when the discovery of the wide prevalence of theophagy as a tribal custom has deprived us of the last excuse for believing that our official religious rites differ in essentials from those of barbarians.
1907 Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 684 The origin of the rites of Theophagy or Communion.
1912 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 136/1 The chief among the reasons given for the correlated rite of theophagy.
1937 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 38 97 Notable also is the demonstration how slight evidence we have, not only that any one ever associated theophagy with the Dionysiac omophagy, but even that any one in the centuries with which we are concerned ever celebrated an omophagy at all.
1956 C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. (1957) 533/2 Theophagy, the practice of ingesting the god. It probably stemmed from the ancient habit of eating the sacred animal to secure blessing, grace, and identity with the deity.
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adj.1805