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last rites
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun last rites has 2 senses
- last rites(n = noun.act) anointing of the sick, extreme unction - a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation; Array is a kind of sacrament
- last rites(n = noun.act) Array - rites performed in connection with a death or burial; Array is a kind of religious rite, rite
THESAURUS
last rites
burial service, chrism, chrismal, chrismation, chrismatory, chrisom, deathwatch, dirge, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, funeral oration, funeral rites, last duty, last honors, last offices, obsequies, ointment, requiem, requiem mass, sacramental anointment, sacred unction, unction, viaticum, wake
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