Eucharistize

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English

Alternative forms

Eucharistise, eucharistize, eucharistise

Etymology

From Eucharist +‎ -ize.

Verb

Eucharistize (third-person singular simple present Eucharistizes, present participle Eucharistizing, simple past and past participle Eucharistized)

  1. (transitive) To bless or consecrate in memory of Christ; To prepare as the Eucharist.
    • 1917, William John Sparrow-Simpson, The Prayer of Consecration, page 74:
      And are not the Blessings of God the Father conveyed by the Holy Ghost? To Eucharistize or Bless the Elements is, therefore, in other words, to pray for the Descent of the Holy Ghost.
    • 1997, Richard Foley, Mary and the Eucharist, page 44:
      The effect of this consecration is to Eucharistize — that is, convert, refashion, transmute — the physical reality of bread and wine into that sacred reality which is the glorified God-Man.
    • 2012, Aristotle Papanikolaou, The Mystical as Political:
      The affinities between Guroian and Cavanaugh are, perhaps, best summed up in Cavanaugh's declaration that the “point is not to politicize the Eucharist, but to 'Eucharistize' the world.”