Eulogia

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin eulogia, from Ancient Greek εὐλογῐ́ᾱ (eulogĭ́ā).

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin eulogia, plural of eulogium.

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