a. and sb. [f. EUCHARIST + -IC; cf. Fr. eucharistique.]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the Eucharist.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., xiii. 42. The belief of the Eucharistick Bread being the real Body of Christ does not excuse the adorer thereof from Idolatry.
a. 1711. Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 242. Invites her to the Eucharistick Feast.
1847. Disraeli, Tancred, III. V. vi. 100. The very ceremony … eternally invested with eucharistic grace.
1869. A. W. Haddan, Apost. Succ., viii. (1879), 232. Poison administered in the Eucharistic cup.
b. Of the nature of, or resembling, the Eucharist.
1860. Westcott, Introd. Study Gosp., vi. (ed. 5), 335. In this connexion the eucharistic meal at Emmaus gains a new meaning.
1877. Sparrow, Serm., xii. 161. The taking of food, if sanctified by religion, is eucharistic.
2. Of or pertaining to thanksgiving (occasionally with mixed notion of 1).
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 401. He [Socrates] would have an Eucharistick Sacrifice offered to him [Æsculapius] in his behalf, as having now cured him at once of all diseases by Death.
a. 1711. Ken, Edmund, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 372. They sang new Eucharistick Strains To glorious God.
1853. J. Brown, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. xviii. I. 280. It is a magnificent eucharistic ode.
1882. Farrar, Early Chr., I. 443, note. The meat-offerings were eucharistic, and the sin-offerings expiatory.
† B. sb. = EUCHARIST 4. Obs.
1623. Cockeram, Eucharisticke, a giuing of thankes.
1709. Strype, Ann. Ref., I. vii. 108, marg. An Eucharistic of the Exiles to Jesus Christ.
