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“theophagies”
1. The practice or ritual eating of a god, or of the thing symbolizing god, such as a sacrament.
2. The eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); the communion.
3. In anthropology, the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they are ingesting a deity as part of the consecrated food.
2. The eating of God (in the mass or communion rite); the communion.
3. In anthropology, the eating of meals at which the participants believe that they are ingesting a deity as part of the consecrated food.
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phago-, phag-, -phage, -phagi, -phagic, -phagically, -phagia, -phagism, -phagist, -phagic, -phagous, -phagy
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theo-, the-, -theism, -theist, -theistic
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