Sac·ra·men·tar·i·an (s k r -m n-târ  -n)n. One who regards the consecrated bread and wine of the Eucharist as only the metaphorical, and not the physical, body and blood of Jesus. adj. 1. Of or relating to Sacramentarians. 2. Of or relating to sacramentalism or sacramentalists. Sac ra·men·tari·an·ism n. |
Sacramentarian [ˌsækrəmɛnˈtɛərɪən]
n
1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) any Protestant theologian, such as the Swiss Reformation leader Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531), who maintained that the bread and wine of the Eucharist were the body and blood of Christ only in a figurative sense and denied His real presence in these elements
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) one who believes in sacramentalism
adj
1. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) of or relating to Sacramentarians
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) (not capital) of or relating to sacraments
Sacramentarianism n
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