Eulogia
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent. historical
"To Severus he sends "a Campanian loaf from his cell, as a eulogia," together with a boxwood casket, and begs him, as before, by accepting the loaf in the name of the Lord to convert it into a eulogia."
- 2 plural of eulogium form-of, plural, rare
"So many memorials of character, and so many eulogia on his talents have fallen to the lot of few writers of that age."
Synonyms
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More examples"To Severus he sends "a Campanian loaf from his cell, as a eulogia," together with a boxwood casket, and begs him, as before, by accepting the loaf in the name of the Lord to convert it into a eulogia."
Etymology
From Latin eulogia, from Ancient Greek εὐλογῐ́ᾱ (eulogĭ́ā).
From Medieval Latin eulogia, plural of eulogium.
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