Meanings (ES + gloss)
celebrante
A person who officiates at a religious ceremony, especially a marriage or the Eucharist.
The most appropriate mode of ordering the holy vessels at this part of the service, previously to preparing them for the communion, is for the celebrant to place both the patten an…
The very reverend celebrant was then conducted to the platform of the altar, and the postulant and her attendants having genuflected, the ceremony of reception began with the prepa…
celebrante
A person who conducts formal ceremonies in the community, particularly weddings, baby namings, renewals of wedding vows and funerals.
Church and state are completely separate but all clergy can be licensed as civil celebrants for legal purposes.
These are celebrants who marry people at registry offices.
celebrante
A person who is celebrating something.
1977 February 10, Gerri Major, Gerri Major's Society World: Inaugural Balls Have Largest Black Participation Ever, JET, page 39, Once inside, about all that the celebrants could do…
[…]the celebrants had responded “All hail Satan!” and the girl acolyte had come to the altar and raised her garments to the priest, revealing herself naked beneath them.
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