Definition of Sacraments

1. Noun. (plural of sacrament) ¹

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Definition of Sacraments

1. sacrament [n] - See also: sacrament

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacraments

sacramental oil
sacramental wine
sacramentalism
sacramentalisms
sacramentalist
sacramentalists
sacramentality
sacramentally
sacramentalness
sacramentals
sacramentarian
sacramentaries
sacramentary
sacramentize
sacramentized
sacraments
sacraria
sacrarial
sacraries
sacrarium
sacrary
sacrate
sacration
sacrations
sacre
sacre bleu
sacrectomy
sacred baboon
sacred bone

Literary usage of Sacraments

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

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Dionysius the Areopagite had given six sacraments —baptism, the Eucharist, unction, ... Bernard of Clairvaux spoke of many sacraments and enumerated ten, ..."

2. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"the purity of God is only polluted when man makes any addition of his own. And yet we see, as the sacraments are observed in the present day, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(1) It was altogether fitting that the ministration of the sacraments be given, ... The efficacy of the sacraments comes from the Passion of Christ, ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(1) It was altogether fitting that the ministration of the sacraments be given, ... The efficacy of the sacraments comes from the Passion of Christ, ..."

5. History of Dogma by Adolf von Harnack (1899)
"Occam emptied the Sacraments of every kind of inner and speculative import ; they have simply an importance because God has so ordained them ; but we do not ..."

6. The Works of that Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, with an by Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1850)
"For we all admire and honour the holy Sacraments, not respecting so much the ... Seeing that Sacraments therefore consist altogether in relation to some ..."

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