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Sacramentarian
[sak-ruh-men-tair-ee-uhn]
noun
a person who maintains that the Eucharistic elements have only symbolic significance and are not corporeal manifestations of Christ.
(lowercase)a sacramentalist.
adjective
of or relating to the Sacramentarians.
(lowercase)of or relating to the sacraments.
Sacramentarian
/ ˌæəɛˈɛəɪə /
noun
any Protestant theologian, such as Zwingli, who maintained that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were the body and blood of Christ only in a figurative sense and denied His real presence in these elements
one who believes in sacramentalism
adjective
of or relating to Sacramentarians
(not capital) of or relating to sacraments
Other 51Թ Forms
- Sacramentarianism noun
- unsacramentarian adjective
- ˌˈٲԾ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Sacramentarian1
Example Sentences
In the Introduction to the Life an ecclesiastical friend distinguishes him from the partisan schools as a "Broad Church Sacramentarian."
It was for this reason I always lamented the legalizing of the sacramentarian errors of the Low-Church party by the Gorham Judgment; and that I lament now the legalizing of the heresies of the "Essays and Reviews," and the spreading unbelief of Dr. Colenso.
Sacramen′tary, pertaining to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, or to the sacramentarians.—n. a book containing all the prayers and ceremonies used at the celebration of the R.C. sacraments: a sacramentarian.
I am a poor Sacramentarian, and can hardly recollect what I have hitherto lived on, it was so bloody-desperate little.
Ernesti seems to consider the school, in modern language, Sacramentarian: and certainly some of the most cogent testimonies brought by moderns against the Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist are taken from writers who are connected with that school; as the author, said to be St. Chrysostom, of the Epistle to Cæsarius, Theodoret in his Eranistes, and Facundus.
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