Eucharistare

Eucharistare is a term that appears in scholarly and speculative discourse to denote the act of performing or celebrating the Eucharist, the central sacramental rite in many Christian traditions. It is not widely used in canonical liturgical texts, but it is sometimes employed in discussions that aim to emphasize the action as a conscious act of thanksgiving directed at God.

The word is built from Eucharistia, the Greek term for "thanksgiving" associated with the Eucharist, combined with the Latin infinitive ending -are, producing a verb-like form that reads as "to Eucharist" or "to celebrate the Eucharist." The root Eucharistia derives from eucharistein, meaning "to give thanks."

In practice, churches typically express the action with phrases such as "to celebrate the Eucharist," "to consecrate and distribute the bread and wine," or "to administer the Eucharist." Eucharistare thus functions mainly as a scholarly or artificial construct, helpful in discussions about sacramental action or in proposed terminology for ecumenical dialogue. It is not a standard liturgical verb in Latin, Greek, or the major modern rites.

It may be encountered in theoretical writing, theological glossaries, or studies of liturgical language, where scholars analyze how action words related to the Eucharist encode the significance of thanksgiving, sacrifice, and communion.