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Definition of Communicants
1. communicant [n] - See also: communicant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Communicants
Literary usage of Communicants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"7.500 communicants. During the past year there have been nearly 1000 ...
The baptisms during the year were 112; confirmations, 73; and communicants, 572. ..."
2. History of All the Religious Denominations in the United States: Containing by Israel Daniel Rupp (1849)
"At present they number 170 communicants. The church at Plainfield, was formed of
members from this church, in 1838. They have a beautiful house of worship ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"554 congregations, 145215 communicants; the Ministerium of New York (1773), ...
20 congregations, 1313 communicants; New York and New England Synod (1902). ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1900)
"The largest missionary societies, reckoning by the number of communicants reported
in the mission churches, and including only those reporting more than ..."
5. The Spirit of Missions by Episcopal church Board of Missions, Episcopal Church Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society (1844)
"communicants, 7. Individuals, 100. Port Gibson Baptisms—Infants, 3.
Attendants—Families, 0 ... communicants, 99 Confirmations, 5. Individuals, 40
Adults, 1. ..."
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