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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 sacrament
Familiarity information: SACRAMENTAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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