anointing of the sick | | |
n. (act) | 1. anointing of the sick, extreme unction, last rites | a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation. |
| ~ 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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