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concelebrate

concelebrate verb: to celebrate along with others.

Verb

concelebrate (third-person singular simple present concelebrates, present participle concelebrating, simple past and past participle concelebrated)

  1. To celebrate along with others
    • Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet...1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6
  2. To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant.
    • We had been told before the service that we were invited to move up to the altar if we wanted to concelebrate.2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net
    • A blog explaining the decision cited the shrine’s policy that women priests are not permitted to celebrate or concelebrate the eucharist there.2020 September 11, Maddy Fry, “Priest Associate of Walsingham resigns after compromises over women priests fail”, in Church Times
    1. (broadly) To celebrate the Eucharist along with the bishop who ordained them.

Forms of concelebrate

third-person singular presentconcelebrates
present participleconcelebrating
past participleconcelebrated
pastconcelebrated

Origin of concelebrate

From con- + celebrate.

Questions about concelebrate

What does concelebrate mean?
Concelebrate means to celebrate along with others.
What part of speech is concelebrate?
Concelebrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of concelebrate?
The past tense of concelebrate is concelebrated.

Words near concelebrate in the dictionary

  1. conceiveth
  2. conceiving
  3. conceivings
  4. concelebrant
  5. concelebrants
  6. concelebrate
  7. concelebrated
  8. concelebrates
  9. concelebrating
  10. concelebration
  11. concelebrations

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