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Lord's Supper   /lɔrdz sˈəpər/   Listen
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Lord  n.  
1.
One who has power and authority; a master; a ruler; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. "But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion." "Man over men He made not lord."
2.
A titled nobleman., whether a peer of the realm or not; a bishop, as a member of the House of Lords; by courtesy; the son of a duke or marquis, or the eldest son of an earl; in a restricted sense, a baron, as opposed to noblemen of higher rank. (Eng.)
3.
A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc. (Eng.)
4.
A husband. "My lord being old also." "Thou worthy lord Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee."
5.
(Feudal Law) One of whom a fee or estate is held; the male owner of feudal land; as, the lord of the soil; the lord of the manor.
6.
The Supreme Being; Jehovah. Note: When Lord, in the Old Testament, is printed in small capitals, it is usually equivalent to Jehovah, and might, with more propriety, be so rendered.
7.
(Christianity) The Savior; Jesus Christ.
House of Lords, one of the constituent parts of the British Parliament, consisting of the lords spiritual and temporal.
Lord high chancellor, Lord high constable, etc. See Chancellor, Constable, etc.
Lord justice clerk, the second in rank of the two highest judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland.
Lord justice general, or Lord president, the highest in rank of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland.
Lord keeper, an ancient officer of the English crown, who had the custody of the king's great seal, with authority to affix it to public documents. The office is now merged in that of the chancellor.
Lord lieutenant, a representative of British royalty: the lord lieutenant of Ireland being the representative of royalty there, and exercising supreme administrative authority; the lord lieutenant of a county being a deputy to manage its military concerns, and also to nominate to the chancellor the justices of the peace for that county.
Lord of misrule, the master of the revels at Christmas in a nobleman's or other great house.
Lords spiritual, the archbishops and bishops who have seats in the House of Lords.
Lords temporal, the peers of England; also, sixteen representative peers of Scotland, and twenty-eight representatives of the Irish peerage.
Our lord, Jesus Christ; the Savior.
The Lord's Day, Sunday; the Christian Sabbath, on which the Lord Jesus rose from the dead.
The Lord's Prayer, (Christianity) the prayer which Jesus taught his disciples, also called the Our Father.
The Lord's Supper.
(a)
The paschal supper partaken of by Jesus the night before his crucifixion.
(b)
The sacrament of the eucharist; the holy communion.
The Lord's Table.
(a)
The altar or table from which the sacrament is dispensed.
(b)
The sacrament itself.





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"Lord's supper" Quotes from Famous Books



... to pass for the apostle John, but we see clearly that he writes in the interest of this apostle. On each page he betrays the desire to fortify his authority, to show that he has been the favorite of Jesus;[1] that in all the solemn circumstances (at the Lord's supper, at Calvary, at the tomb) he held the first place. His relations on the whole fraternal, although not excluding a certain rivalry with Peter;[2] his hatred, on the contrary, of Judas,[3] a hatred probably anterior to the betrayal, seems to pierce through here ...
— The Life of Jesus • Ernest Renan
... opinion; one being a Roman Catholic and the other a Protestant; but the parish clerk, an intelligent old man who knew them well, assured us that they both regularly attended the services in the Church of Llangollen, and received the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, both there, and at their own cottage during the last illness of Lady Eleanor Butler, from the vicar. With all their eccentricity, their attachment to each other must have been of a pure, unchanging, and ...
— The "Ladies of Llangollen" • John Hicklin
... of the day was spent by James in silent prayer, and next day he received the Lord's Supper at the hands of the minister, by partaking of the bread and wine which are the symbols of the body and blood of Christ. Faith in the power of God, love to Christ who had redeemed him, and hope of eternal life, had made his venerable ...
— The Basket of Flowers • Christoph von Schmid
... a desire to receive the Lord's Supper, and commemorate his precious death and sufferings. I told her as well as I was able what it was to receive Christ into her heart; but as her weakness of body increased, she did not mention it again. She seemed quite resigned before she died. I do hope ...
— The Annals of the Poor • Legh Richmond
... followed all the service kept clapping him on the shoulder, saying, "A very good pray." I told this to a pious minister, who declared it was the most awfully just description of self-deluding formality, helped on by Satan, that ever he heard of. When partaking of the Lord's supper, Jack told me that his feeling was "very, very love Jesus Christ; very, very, very hate devil: go, devil!" and with holy indignation he motioned, as it were, the enemy from him. He felt that he had overcome the accuser by the ...
— Personal Recollections • Charlotte Elizabeth


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