Wafer
Pronunciation of Wafer
/wˈe͡ɪfə/, /wˈeɪfə/, /w_ˈeɪ_f_ə/
Synonyms for wafer:
Sense 1
Sense 5
host.
scale
Other synonyms and related words:
cookie (noun)
biscuit.
disk (noun)
biscuit, cookie.
roll (verb)
biscuit.
Usage examples for wafer:
- The argument from analogy was, I infer, that the Mass, with its wafer, was precisely such an " offering," such a survival in Catholic ritual, as in Jewish ritual St. Paul consented to, by the advice of the Church of Jerusalem; consequently Protestants in a Catholic country, under the existing circumstances, might attend the Mass. - "John Knox and the Reformation", Andrew Lang.
- And in despair, we will fall back upon the old belief that He is in the wafer on the altar, and find there Him whom our souls must find, or be for ever without a home. - "The Water of Life and Other Sermons", Charles Kingsley.
- What has chemistry to say to a mystery of this kind, the essence of which is the complete disguise of a human body under a form in all respects answering the material semblance of a wafer? - "The Intellectual Life", =Philip Gilbert Hamerton.