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ANOINTING OF THE SICK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anointing of the sick mean?
• ANOINTING OF THE SICK (noun)
The noun ANOINTING OF THE SICK has 1 sense:
1. a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
Familiarity information: ANOINTING OF THE SICK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ANOINTING OF THE SICK (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
anointing of the sick; extreme unction; last rites
Hypernyms ("anointing of the sick" is a kind of...):
sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)
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