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eulogia

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from εὐλογῐ́ᾱ
  2. borrowed from eulogia

Definitions

  1. The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist…

    The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent.

    • 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.
    • It was there decreed that the hallowed elements were no longer to be sent as Eulogiae into strange dioceses, at the feast of Easter.

  2. plural of eulogium

    • So many memorials of character, and so many eulogia on his talents have fallen to the lot of few writers of that age.
    • We confess our inability to dod justice to a theme so mighty; but if our pen is inadequate to the eulogia, our humble attempt will at least prove, that our heart is not insensible to the excellencies of […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA