Concelebrate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To celebrate along with others
"Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]"
- 2 To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant.
"We had been told before the service that we were invited to move up to the altar if we wanted to concelebrate."
- 3 To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant.; To celebrate the Eucharist along with the bishop who ordained them. broadly
Example
More examples"Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]"
Etymology
From con- + celebrate.
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