Agape

ag′a-pē, n. a love-feast, held by the early Christians at communion time, when contributions were made for the poor:— pl. Ag′apæ .— n. Agapem′onē (Gr., 'love abode'), a community of religious visionaries with unedifying ideas about the sexual relations, founded in 1859 at Char linch, near Bridgwater, by one H. J. Prince, formerly an Anglican clergyman. [Gr. agapē , love.]