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SACRAMENTAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sacramental mean? 

SACRAMENTAL (adjective)
  The adjective SACRAMENTAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or involving a sacramentplay

  Familiarity information: SACRAMENTAL used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SACRAMENTAL (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or involving a sacrament

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

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)

Derivation:

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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