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viaticum

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8 lettersPronunciation /vʌɪˈatɪkəm/Sorted aciimtuvStarts with VEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.

Word origin

From Latin viāticum (“travelling-money, provisions for a journey”), from viāticus (“of a road or journey”), from via (“road”). Doublet of voyage.

Used in a sentence

  • […]from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.
  • Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate.
    One Thousand and One Nights
  • That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something.

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