Last-rites Synonyms

A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
Synonyms:
  1. extreme-unction
  2. burial service
  3. exequies
  4. funeral ceremony
  5. anointing-of-the-sick
  6. funeral rites
  7. funeral service
  8. last duty
  9. last honors
  10. last offices
  11. memorial-service
  12. obsequies
  13. sacrament of the sick
  14. viaticum
  15. visitation of the sick

Last-rites Sentence Examples

  • He had died administering the last rites to people fatally injured.

  • The immediate results of disestablishment were civil marriage, the civil registry of births and deaths, and the secularization of cemeteries; but the church retains its influence over all loyal churchmen through the confessional, the last rites of the church, and their sentiment against the profanation of holy ground.

  • Libitina was the goddess of funerals; her officers were the Libitinarii our undertakers; her temple in which all business connected with the last rites was transacted, in which the account of deaths - ratio Libitinae - was kept, served the purpose of a register office."

  • Athough under ecclesiastical censures, he had never swerved from a consistent profession of faith as a Catholic; and on his death-bed he duly received the last rites of his communion.

  • Such appear to be the facts, but Tyrrell's relations with Rome were such that a good deal of mystery was made as to whether he really received the last rites of his Church in any authorized manner.

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