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Lord's Supper

DEFINITIONS OF: Lord's Supper

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n a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine

Synonyms:
Eucharist, Eucharistic liturgy, Holy Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, sacrament of the Eucharist
Type of:
sacrament
a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction

n the traditional Passover supper of Jesus with his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion

Synonyms:
Last Supper
Type of:
Passover supper, Seder
(Judaism) the ceremonial dinner on the first night (or both nights) of Passover
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