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• wafer — noun /ˈweɪfə/ a) A light, thin, flat biscuit. The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost …   Wiktionary

• wafer — Synonyms and related words: Brussels biscuit, Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Host, Last Supper, Melba toast, Sacrament Sunday, altar bread, biscuit, bread, bread and wine, coat, coating, collop, consecrated bread, consecrated elements,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Christmas wafer — (Polish: opłatek, plural opłatki; Lithuanian: kalėdaitis) is a Central European Christian Christmas tradition celebrated in Polish, Slovak and …   Wikipedia

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• HOST, DESECRATION OF — HOST, DESECRATION OF, alleged profanation of the wafer consecrated in the Roman Catholic ceremony of the Eucharist, and believed in the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation to become thereby the actual body of Jesus. The doctrine was first… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Ritualists — • The advanced section of the High Church party in the Anglican Establishment, which since about 1860 has adhered to and developed further the principles of the earlier Tractarian Movement Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ritualists… …   Catholic encyclopedia

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• wa´fer|like´ — wa|fer «WAY fuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. a very thin cake or biscuit, sometimes flavored or sweetened. 2. the thin, round piece of unleavened bread used in celebrating Holy Communion or the Eucharist in certain churches, especially the Roman… …   Useful english dictionary

• wa|fer — «WAY fuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. a very thin cake or biscuit, sometimes flavored or sweetened. 2. the thin, round piece of unleavened bread used in celebrating Holy Communion or the Eucharist in certain churches, especially the Roman Catholic… …   Useful english dictionary

• Eucharist — n 1.Holy Communion, sacrament of the Lord s Supper; Sacrifice of the Mass, Holy Sacrifice; offering, offering of the host, oblation; Theol. transubstantiation, Theol. impanation, the body of our Lord, real presence. 2. communion bread or wafer,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• Host — /hoʊst/ (say hohst) noun the bread consecrated in the celebration of the Eucharist; a consecrated wafer. {Middle English hoste, from Medieval Latin hostia, in Latin: animal sacrificed} …