ante communion (antekomunyon)

and n. I. a. Before communion: as, the antecomти nion service. II. n. That part of the communion office in the Book of Common Prayer which precedes the communion service proper, and is said on Sun days and other holy days though there be no communion. According to the English rubric, it extends to the end of the prayer for Christ's church militant; according to the American, to the end of the gospel; the service concluding in either case with the ble ing. antecoxal (an-te-kok's al), a. [L. ante, before, + NL. coxa, q. v.] In entom., situated in front of a coxa: applied to a piece of the me taster num. See Cicindelida.