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The union of two men in the same office; or the office, dignity, or government of two men thus associated, as in ancient Rome.

m of it) in divine service and varying in many points of detail, but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation. The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople, or ecumenical patriarch (whose position is not one of supremacy, but of precedence), the patriarch…

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

A twining or twisting together or round; union. Bp. Hacket.

The ecclesiastic who reads the epistle at the communion service.

One of the clergy who reads the epistle at the communion service; an epistler.

t the punishment of all offenses should be referred to the civil power, and that holy communion was open to all. In the present day, an Erastian is one who would see the church placed entirely under the control of the State. Shipley.

ished tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down. Burke. Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control. Bancroft.

ting the death of Christ, in the use of bread and wine, as the appointed emblems; the communion. -- See Sacrament.

hurch founded by a fusion of Lutherans and Calvinists in Germany in 1817. -- Evangelical Union, a religion sect founded in Scotland in 1843 by the Rev. James Morison; -- called also Morisonians.

To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence.

ctual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence. The main object of our existence. Lubbock.

To cut off; to separate or expel from union; to extirpate. Barrow. The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly. Am. Cyc.

To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good…

ed of states or districts which retain only a subordinate and limited sovereignty, as the Union of the United States, or the Sonderbund of Switzerland.

the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

(Eccl.) To acknowledge as of good standing, or in communion according to standards of faith and practice; to admit to Christian fellowship.

formed in the coagulation of the blood either by decomposition of fibrinogen, or from the union of fibrinogen and paraglobulin which exist separately in the blood. It is insoluble in water, but is readily digestible in gastric and pancreatic juice.

The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.