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Origin and history of Eucharist

Eucharist(n.)

"sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Communion," mid-14c., from Old French eucariste, from Late Latin eucharistia, from Greek eukharistia "thanksgiving, gratitude," later "the Lord's Supper," from eukharistos "grateful," from eu "well" (see eu-) + stem of kharizesthai "show favor," from kharis "favor, grace" (from PIE root *gher- (2) "to like, want"). Eukharisteo is the usual verb for "to thank, to be thankful" in Septuagint and Greek New Testament. Related: Eucharistic.

also from mid-14c.

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euchre(n.)

type of card game played with a partial deck, enormously popular in U.S. before the rise of bridge, by 1840, American English, especially in publications from the (then) Southwest and sometimes associated with the Dutch (Germans). In early use also uker, yucker. Encyclopedia Britannica declares it to derive from juckerspiel, an Alsatian game. The modern spelling is perhaps on the model of Eucharist.

By 1829 it also was an English spelling for yucca.

eu-

word-forming element, in modern use meaning "good, well," from Greek eus "good," eu "well" (adv.), also "luckily, happily" (opposed to kakos), as a noun, "the right, the good cause," from PIE *(e)su- "good" (source also of Sanskrit su- "good," Avestan hu- "good"), originally a suffixed form of root *es- "to be." In compounds the Greek word had more a sense of "greatness, abundance, prosperity," and was opposed to dys-.

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communion
In English, from mid-15c. as "the sacrament of the Eucharist," from c. 1500 as "act of partaking in the sacrament of the...Eucharist."...
celebration
The meaning "performance of a religious ceremony" (especially the Eucharist) is from 1570s; that of "extolling in speeches...
transubstantiation
Ecclesiastical sense in reference to the Eucharist first recorded 1530s....
impanate
(1751, from Latin adesse "be present," from ad- "to" + esse "be") believed in the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist...
piscine
placed close to the altar and used to receive the water in which the priest washed his hands before the celebration of the eucharist...
consecration
from a common to a sacred use, ritual dedication to God," especially the ritual consecration of the bread and wine of the Eucharist...
consubstantiation
"doctrine that the body and blood of Christ coeist in and with the elements of the Eucharist," 1590s, from Church Latin consubstantionem...
sacrament
late Old English, in Christian use, "an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace," especially "a sacrament of the Church, one of the religious ceremonies enjoined by Christ or the Church," and later specifically "the sacrament of the Eucharist" (c. 1300), from Old F
offertory
mid-14c., offertorie, "antiphon said or sung after the Credo during the part of a Mass at which offerings are made," from Medieval Latin offertorium "place where offerings are brought," from Vulgar Latin offertus, corresponding to Latin oblatus, past participle of offerre (see of
liturgy
1550s, Liturgy, "the service of the Holy Eucharist," from French liturgie (16c.) or directly from Late Latin/Medieval Latin liturgia "public service, public worship," from Greek leitourgia "a liturgy; public duty, ministration, ministry," from leitourgos "one who performs a publi

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