Definition of Sacramentals

1. sacramental [n] - See also: sacramental

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacramentals

sacrals
sacrament
sacrament of reconciliation
sacrament of the Eucharist
sacramental
sacramental manduction
sacramental oil
sacramental wine
sacramentalism
sacramentalisms
sacramentalist
sacramentalists
sacramentality
sacramentally
sacramentalness
sacramentals (current term)
sacramentarian
sacramentaries
sacramentary
sacramentize
sacramentized
sacraments
sacraria
sacrarial
sacraries
sacrarium
sacrary
sacrate
sacration
sacrations

Literary usage of Sacramentals

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1839)
"... appears by too evident and notorious demonstration : for she hath invented sacramentals of her own, without a Divine Warrant, AiT yag, ..."

2. A Complete Manual of Canon Law by Oswald Joseph Reichel (1896)
"In contrast to the greater sacraments these may be termed ecclesiastical sacraments. They include (1) sacramentals, (2) benedictions, and (3) suffrages. ..."

3. The Interdict: Its History and Its Operation : with Especial Attention to by Edward Benjamin Krehbiel (1909)
"*8 Churching of women and benediction of holy water are usually specifically prohibited, other sacramentals receiving no mention. ..."

4. Mary, Help of Christians, and the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers by Bonaventure Hammer, John James Burke (1909)
"*Tj3 Y sacramentals we mean the various prayers, blessings, ... Here mention will be made of some of the most common of the sacramentals that have not ..."

5. A Full Catechism of the Catholic Religion by Joseph Deharbe (1889)
"Why are such things called sacramentals ? ... The Sacraments were instituted by God, and •operate by the efficacy which God gave them; the sacramentals, ..."

6. Delineation of Roman Catholicism: Drawn from the Authentic and Acknowledged by Charles Elliott (1851)
"X. The ceremonies and sacramentals of the sacraments. 1. We will present the reader with the views of the Roman Catholic rites connected with the sacraments ..."

7. Pastors, Their Rights and Duties According to the New Code of Canon Law by Charles Joseph Koudelka (1921)
"The sacramentals do not operate "ex opere operato' as the sacraments do, ... The right to constitute, interpret, change and abolish the sacramentals is ..."

8. Illustrations for Sermons and Instructions: Definitions, Word-pictures by Charles Jerome Callan (1916)
"sacramentals THE sacramentals, WHAT THEY ABE All sensible rites instituted by the Church to produce salutary effects, as also all objects blessed by the ..."

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