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Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, …

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  1. Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements. -- n. A follower of Zwingli.
  2. Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer ofGerman Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the truebody of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not inessence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial withoutmystical elements. -- n.