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viaticum

/vahy-at-i-kuhm, vee-/US // vaɪˈæt ɪ kəm, vi- //UK // (vaɪˈætɪkəm) //

维拉蒂亚姆,维拉蒂姆,维拉蒂克姆,维拉提亚姆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural vi·at·i·ca [vahy-at-i-kuh, vee-], /vaɪˈæt ɪ kə, vi-/, vi·at·i·cums.

    • : Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
    • : a provision or allowance for traveling, originally of transportation and supplies, later of money, made to officials on public missions.
    • : money or necessities for any journey.

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Examples

  • The priest may be obliged to administer baptism, to hear confession, to give the Viaticum and Extreme Unction.

  • This he was able to do, and she declared that she would keep it to be her viaticum when the time of her release should come.

  • Reconciliation with my friends I do not expect; nor pardon from them; at least, till in extremity, and as a viaticum.

  • She had not even the viaticum of seeing the phosphorescent star, the floating head of Jao on the water.

  • The ghostly viaticum being over, the priest and his assistants left the house.