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Host

the consecrated bread or wafer used by the Roman Catholic Church in her celebration of the eucharist. It is unleavened, thin, flat, and of circular form, and has certain mystic signs impressed on its surface. The host is supposed after being blessed to be no longer bread and wine, but to be transformed into the real body and blood of Christ.

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