wafer
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈweɪfər/
- Formal
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hostia
- What impressed me most, however, was the distribution of the communion wafers.
- communion wafers
Yeah, that's where the, like the, the the wine and the wafers are kept.
- Yeah, that's where the, like the, the the wine and the wafers are kept.
Examples
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During the service, the priest held up the wafer before distributing it to the congregation.
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Consecrated wafers were buried in altars along with and in place of relics.
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The wine and the wafer are passed through this same little window.
Fiction book (1999) -
The Pope pulled out a wafer and a glass of wine.
Fiction book (1998) -
Luckily all we have to do nowadays is take the wafer and drink the wine.
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- Look, a consecrated wafer.
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Surely Catholics will be able to tell if the wafer is consecrated or not.
Blog text (4) -
She tells me she loves the taste of communion wafers.
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That's the miracle of Transubstantiation when the wafer transforms into the Body of Christ.
Blog text (4) -
The children eagerly waited to receive their wafer during the first communion ceremony.
Synonyms
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8.8
A small thin bread used in Christian Communion to represent Christ's body
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wafer originally came from the old word wafla meaning 'thin cake', and such thin cakes were used as sacred bread in church. So the communion wafer is simply a very thin, unleavened 'bread' used in the Eucharist.