different between communicant vs forrit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mju?n?k?nt/

Noun

communicant (plural communicants)

1. A person who receives (or is allowed to receive the elements (i.e., bread and wine) of) the sacrament of Holy Communion (compare also the terms: communion, Communion, Lord’s Supper, Mass, Eucharist, Divine Liturgy).
   • , August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Bennett

     A never-failing monthly communicant.

2. One who communicates.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)

   • 2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians (page 215)

     These cyberforums are asynchronous; that is, contributors post (i.e., publish a text message) without the need for fellow communicants to be online at the same time.

Translations

Adjective

communicant (not comparable)

1. Communicating.
   • c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Field on the Church

     The co-eternal Son of the living God, incarnate, tempted, crucified, resurgent, communicant of his spirit, ascendant, and obtaining for his church the descent of the Holy Ghost.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?mmunic?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?.my.ni?k?nt/
• Hyphenation: com?mu?ni?cant
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

communicant m (plural communicanten, diminutive communicantje n)

1. (Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A communicant, one receiving Holy Communion.

   Synonym: communieganger

French

Adjective

communicant (feminine singular communicante, masculine plural communicants, feminine plural communicantes)

1. communicating.

   vases communicants (communicating vessels)

Latin

Verb

comm?nicant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of comm?nic?

English

Adverb

forrit (not comparable)

1. (Scotland) Forwards, forward.
   • 1817, James Hogg, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, 1833, page 16,

     I was just standin looking about me amang the lang hags that lead out frae the head o' the North Grain, and considering what could be wort of a' the sheep, when I noticed my dog, Reaver, gaun coursing away forrit as he had been setting a fox.

   • 1828, "Mansie Wauch" (David Macbeth Moir), The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith, page 132,

     All o' a sudden I sees a light coming dancing forrit amang the trees; and my hair began to stand up on end. Then, in the next moment, save us a'! I sees anither light, and forrit, forrit they baith cam, like the een of some great fiery monster, let loose frae the pit o' darkness by its maister, to seek whom it might devour.

   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Merry Men & Other Stories, 2006, page 67,

     Lang or that, she had had a wean to a dragoon; she hadnae come forrit^{[presented as a communicant]} for maybe thretty year; and bairns had seen her mumblin' to hersel' up on Key's Loan in the gloamin', whilk was an unco time an' place for a God-fearin' woman.

Faroese

Noun

forrit n (genitive singular forrits, plural forrit)

1. (computing) program

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From for- (“pre-, pro-”) +? rit (“writ, writing”). Calque of English program, which is derived from Ancient Greek ??? (pró, “before”) +? ?????? (grámma, “writing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r.r?(?)t/
• Rhymes: -?r??t

Noun

forrit n (genitive singular forrits, nominative plural forrit)

1. (computing) program, application, application program

Declension

Synonyms

• (program): tölvuforrit

Derived terms