laying on of hands

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• noun religion A healing practice among some devout religious groups, in which a religious authority places his or her hands on a person who is sick or injured and thereby supposedly cures that person.

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• noun laying hands on a person's head to invoke spiritual blessing in Christian ordination
• noun the application of a faith healer's hands to the patient's body