communicant

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

communicant
    n 1: a person entitled to receive Communion

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Communicant \Com*mu"ni*cant\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*kant), n. [L.
   communicans, p. pr.]
   1. One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the
      sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member.
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            A never-failing monthly communicant.  --Atterbury.
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   2. One who communicates. --Foxe.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Communicant \Com*mu"ni*cant\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*kant), a.
   Communicating. [R.] --Coleridge.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "communicant":
      Christian, God-fearing man, accepter, adorer, adviser, announcer,
      annunciator, authority, beadsman, believer, brother, catechumen,
      celebrant, channel, chapelgoer, church member, churchgoer,
      churchite, churchman, churchwoman, communicator, congregation,
      convert, daily communicant, devotee, devotionalist, disciple,
      enlightener, evangelist, expert witness, fanatic, follower,
      good Christian, gossipmonger, grapevine, idolater, informant,
      information center, information medium, informer, interviewee,
      laic, lay brother, lay sister, layman, laywoman, monitor,
      mouthpiece, neophyte, newsmonger, notifier, parishioner,
      petitioner, pietist, prayer, press, proselyte,
      public relations officer, publisher, radio, receiver, religionist,
      reporter, revivalist, saint, secular, sister, source, spokesman,
      suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, television, teller, theist,
      tipster, tout, truster, venerator, votary, witness, worshiper,
      zealot