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Host

Host [ hōst ] or host [ hōst ]


noun 
Definition:
 
consecrated bread: the bread or wafer consecrated and eaten during the Christian ceremony of Communion

[14th century. Via French< Latin hostia "sacrificial animal, victim"]
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