sacrament
Definition of sacrament:
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part of speech: adverb
SACRAMENTALLY.
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part of speech: noun
A solemn religious rite instituted by Christ to be observed by His followers; the Lord's Supper; the Eucharist; baptism; an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; in the R. Cath. and Gr. Ch., baptism, the Eucharist, marriage, penance, confirmation, orders, and extreme unction, are called sacraments.
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part of speech: noun
One of the solemn religious rites in the Christian Church, esp. the Lord's Supper: one of the seven " outward signs of inward signs of inward grace" by which, in the R. Cath. Church, grace is conveyed to the soul- they are Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders and Matrimony.
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Common misspellings:
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- sacrement (87.5%)
- sacrametn (8.3%)
- sacremantants (4.2%)
Usage examples for sacrament:
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My father was the son of a neighbouring minister, and had only escaped the fate of succeeding his father in the charge by a Highland aversion to taking the sacrament at the age when he was called upon to do so- in order that, by the due order of the Church of Scotland, he might be taken on his trials as a student in Divinity.
"The Dew of Their Youth" – S. R. Crockett -
Chapter 3. Of the Sacrament of Holy Baptism.
"The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America" – Beale M. Schmucker -
The day of her death, after she had received the Sacrament the physician told her that he thought her a good deal better.
"The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete" – Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess Lamballe -
But these Spanish spectacles sought to associate themselves, as closely as might be, with the Corpus worship, and many of them bear directly, in one way or another, upon this sacrament
"Spanish Highways and Byways" – Katharine Lee Bates
