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Definition of Anointing of the Sick
1. Noun. A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation.
Definition of Anointing of the Sick
1. Proper noun. A Catholic sacrament in which a priest anoints a sick or dying person with oil and prays for his salvation ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anointing Of The Sick
Literary usage of Anointing of the Sick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synonyms of the Old Testament: Their Bearing on Christian Faith and Practice by Robert Baker Girdlestone (1871)
"The anointing of the sick. § 1. FEW religious words are more prominent in ...
anointing of the sick."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... writes Mr. Puller (Anointing of the Sick in Scripture and Tradition, London,
1904), "seeing the plain injunction about Unction in the pages of the New ..."
3. An Eirenicon: In a Letter to the Author of "The Christian Year" by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1865)
"The devout sick, at least, send to the physician of the soul as well as of the
body, and in the " anointing of the sick," they look for benefit both to the ..."
4. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle of St. James by James Hardy Ropes (1916)
"F. Kattenbusch, "Ölung," in Herzog-Hauck, PRE, 1004; FW v£ Puller, The Anointing
of the Sick in Scripture and Tradition, '1910; oO "Oil" and "Unction," in ..."
5. The First Age of Christianity and the Church by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger (1866)
"The anointing was not for any medicinal purpose, which could not be thought of
in most internal diseases, though the frequent anointing of the sick among ..."
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