eu|lo|gi|a

eu|lo|gi|a «yoo LOH jee uh», noun.

1. a plural of eulogium.

2. unconsecrated bread, blessed and distributed among the congregation after the Eucharist to those members who did not commune though they had the right (a custom, emblematic of brotherly love, still observed in the Greek Orthodox Church).

╂[< Late Latin eulogia < Greek eulogíā blessing; praise, eulogy]