eulogia
eulogia noun: the practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent. Also the plural of eulogium.
Noun
eulogia (plural eulogiae)
- The practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent.
- To Severus he sends "a Campanian loaf from his cell, as a eulogia," together with a boxwood casket, and begs him, as before, by accepting the loaf in the name of the Lord to convert it into a eulogia.1880, Sir William Smith, editor, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, volume 1, Eulogiae, page 630
- At Easter it was even sent into other dioceses, bishops being in the habit of sending the consecrated host to each other as a mark of intercommunion, of brotherhood and amity. To the sacred host, on these occasions, the name of eulogia was given, and thus until the fifth century the word eulogia...1891, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, volume 16, page 383
Also used as
eulogia is also the plural of eulogium.
Examples of eulogia in a sentence
- It was there decreed that the hallowed elements were no longer to be sent as Eulogiae into strange dioceses, at the feast of Easter.1917, William Herbert Freestone, The Sacrament Reserved: A Survey of the Practice of Reserving the Eucharist, with Special Reference to the...
- The eulogia, meanwhile, came to be regarded as, at least in a partial sense, a surrogate for communion.2015, Gervase Rosser, The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England 1250-1550:
Forms of eulogia
| plural | eulogiae |
|---|
Origin of eulogia
From Latin eulogia, from Ancient Greek εὐλογῐ́ᾱ (eulogĭ́ā).
From Medieval Latin eulogia, plural of eulogium.
Questions about eulogia
- What does eulogia mean?
- Eulogia means the practice of sending the consecrated Eucharist to those not present, or the Eucharist itself so sent.
- How do you use eulogia in a sentence?
- It was there decreed that the hallowed elements were no longer to be sent as Eulogiae into strange dioceses, at the feast of Easter.
- What part of speech is eulogia?
- Eulogia is a noun.
- What is the plural of eulogia?
- The plural of eulogia is eulogiae.
Words near eulogia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eulogia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “eulogia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eulogia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.