Celebrant

The celebrant asked whether anyone present knew of any reason why the bride and groom should not be married.

Great care will have to be taken when distributing the communion wafer which will be transferred into the worshipers' hands by a masked celebrant wearing gloves.

The celebrant of the life of ancient Greece was indeed very far from idealising the man who consolidated the supremacy of Rome.

The very reverend celebrant was then conducted to the platform of the altar, and the postulant and her attendants having genuflected, the ceremony of reception began with the preparatory prayers and responseries.

The most appropriate mode of ordering the holy vessels at this part of the service, previously to preparing them for the communion, is for the celebrant to place both the patten and the chalice in the middle of the altar, in a line with himself, the chalice behind and the patten in front; for they are presented before God as one Eucharist.

Through it, through what takes place, the celebrants try to obtain a result, to influence the course of the hoped for or dreaded events that either depend on the current dispositions of a divinity or obey gestures or words formerly taught or exercised by a divinity or an august ancestor.

These are celebrants who marry people at registry offices.

Church and state are completely separate but all clergy can be licensed as civil celebrants for legal purposes.

When we first began as celebrants back in 1973, we had no poetry in our heads at all.

1977 February 10, Gerri Major, Gerri Major's Society World: Inaugural Balls Have Largest Black Participation Ever, JET, page 39, Once inside, about all that the celebrants could do was nod their heads to the music and pat their feet.