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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἐπίκλησις“invocation”
- English todayepiclesis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐπίκλησις (epíklēsis, “invocation”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
epiclesis
Today it means: A prayer invoking the Holy Spirit, especially one offered in the liturgical context of the Eucharist so as to change the elements of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἐπίκλησις