Viaticum

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Ecclesiastical The Eucharist given to a dying person or one in danger of death.
  • n. Supplies for a journey.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
  • n. Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey (often figurative).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
  • n. Provisions for a journey.
  • n. The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Provision for a journey.
  • n. In Rom, antiq., an allowance for the expenses of the journey, made to officers who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
  • n. The eucharist: in old usage generally, in modern usage exclusively, employed to designate it as given to a person in danger of death.
  • n. A portable altar: so called because often taken to the bedside of the dying.
  • Word Usage
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