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commensal
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commensal /com·men·sal/ (kom-men´sil)
1. living on or within another organism, and deriving benefit without harming or benefiting the host.
2. a parasite that causes no harm to the host.
com·men·sal (k-mnsl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or characterized by a symbiotic relationship in which one species is benefited while the other is unaffected.
n.
An organism participating in a symbiotic relationship in which one species derives some benefit while the other is unaffected.
commensal
1. living on or within another organism, and deriving benefit without harming or benefiting the host individual.
2. a parasitic organism that causes no harm to the host.
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Contemporary and interdisciplinary biblical scholarship has helped widen our knowledge of what open commensality meant in that social context.
Conspicuous in their absence: women in early christianity by Bellan-Boyer, Lisa / Cross Currents
Through the daily ritual of commensality it is shared among the folk.
Rice as Self: Japanese Identities Through Time by Griffiths, Owen / Pacific Affairs
The requirement of avoiding blood was a key element in ensuring the unity of the early Christian communities made up of Jews and Gentiles: it established the conditions that made commensality possible.
Drinking blood at a kosher Eucharist? The sound of scholarly silence by Cahill, Michael J. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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