a. [f. as prec. + -ICAL.]
1. = EUCHARISTIC A. 1.
1534. More, On the Passion, Wks. 1341–2. Ye eucharisticall bread vpon which thankes bee giuen, is the body of their lord.
1612. Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., Pref. 7. The eucharistical elements are not naked and empty signs.
1686. Horneck, Crucif. Jesus, xviii. 521. The Deacon … poured some drops of the Eucharistical wine into her mouth.
1725. trans. Dupin’s Eccl. Hist. 17th C., I. V. 128. That after the Memory of the Passion is finish’d, this Eucharistical Body is not destroyed.
1799. V. Knox, Consid. Lord’s Supp., vi. 46 (R.). Those who understand them of the eucharistical bread and wine.
1842. Manning, Serm. (1848), I. xiv. 187. They … offered the eucharistical sacrifice in their upper chambers.
2. = EUCHARISTIC A. 2.
1548. R. Hutten, Sum of Diuinitie, O vj b. Whiche be sacrifices Eucharisticall or of prayse?
1558. Bp. Watson, Sev. Sacram., xiii. 79. Then the priest begynneth the Eucharisticall sacryfyce of geuing thankes … before the consecration.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett. (1650), II. xlix. 106. You should do well to intersperse among them som eucharisticall ejaculations.
1795. Mason, Ch. Mus., ii. 123. The music … was originally set to a Eucharistical Hymn of Thanksgiving.
Hence Eucharistically adv., in a eucharistic manner.
1639. W. Sclater (2nd), Worthy Commun. Rew., 46. No more is Christ offered up (save onely Eucharistically, and commemoratively).
1710. W. Hume, Sacred Success., 260. They might find some way to communicate eucharistically.
