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intinction
noun [mass noun] the action of dipping the bread in the wine at a Eucharist so that a communicant receives both together.
origin mid 16th cent.: from late Latin intinctio(n-), from Latin intingere, from in- ‘into’ + tingere ‘dip’. The word originally denoted the general action of dipping, especially into something coloured; compare with tinge. The current sense dates from the late 19th cent.

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Source: Oxford Dictionary of English
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