hostie

Definition

the consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist, host.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French hostie, from Latin hostia.

Example Sentences

• "1694 August 9, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, Letter XII, in 1845, William Jerdan (editor), Letters from James, Earl of Perth, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, &c, to His Sister, Countess of Erroll, and Other Members of His Family, page 40, This Hostie* is carryed about the streets in procession : and really it is very fine to see the solemnity."
• "But he went to another Prieſt, that lived in the Court, who gave him the pix with an hoſtie in it."
• "The confessor gave him an hostie,* with a piece of wood, that was, as he pretended, a true piece of the cross, and by these he was to be fortify himself, if any other apparition should come to him, since evil spirits would certainly be chained up by them.[…]The friar presented the hostie to them, which gave them such a check, that he was fully satisfied of the virtue of this preservative."