concelebrate

From con- +‎ celebrate.

concelebrate (third-person singular simple present concelebrates, present participle concelebrating, simple past and past participle concelebrated)

1. To celebrate along with others
   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 6:

     Here I could breake out into a boundleſſe race of oratory, in ſhrill trumpetting and concelebrating the royall magnificence of her gouernement, that for ſtate and ſtrict ciuill ordering, ſcant admitteth any riuals: but I feare it would be a theame diſpleaſant to the graue modeſty of the diſcreet preſent magiſtrates; and therefore conſultiuely I ouerſlip it, […]

2. (Christianity) To take part in the Eucharist as a joint celebrant.
   • 2009 August 29, Kelvin Holdsworth, “Ordination in Edinburgh”, in Thurible.net‎^[1]:

     We had been told before the service that we were invited to move up to the altar if we wanted to concelebrate.

   • 2020 September 11, Maddy Fry, “Priest Associate of Walsingham resigns after compromises over women priests fail”, in Church Times‎^[2]:

     A blog explaining the decision cited the shrine’s policy that women priests are not permitted to celebrate or concelebrate the eucharist there.

   1. (by extension, of a newly ordained priest) To celebrate the Eucharist along with the bishop who ordained them.

• concelebration

concelebrate

1. inflection of concelebrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

concelebrate f pl

1. feminine plural of concelebrato

concelēbrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of concelēbrō

concelebrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of concelebrar combined with te