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last rites

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural Rites performed for a person in danger of dying or in connection with burial, as the Anointing of the Sick in the Roman Catholic Church.

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  • noun The catholic sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.

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  • noun a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
  • noun rites performed in connection with a death or burial

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synonyms (25)

Words with the same meaning

  1. burial service
  2. chrism
  3. chrismal
  4. chrismation
  5. chrismatory
  6. chrisom
  7. deathwatch
  8. dirge
  9. eulogy
  10. exequies
  11. extreme unction
  12. funeral oration
  13. funeral rites
  14. last duty
  15. last honors
  16. last offices
  17. obsequies
  18. ointment
  19. requiem
  20. requiem mass
  21. sacramental anointment
  22. sacred unction
  23. unction
  24. viaticum
  25. wake

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. religious rite
  2. rite
  3. sacrament

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  • bilby commented on the word last rites

    "Three jeeps arrive with stretcher cases. Among them is a German, his face almost off. Poor bastard. There was a trickle of wounded all afternoon, some walking, some on stretchers, some dead, the priest went among them carrying out the last rites. Was this the way Christ wanted them to go?"

    - Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'

    April 18, 2009