Sacrament (Noun)
Meaning
A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Liturgy
- Extreme Unction
- Lord's Supper
- Sacrament Of The Eucharist
- Eucharist
- Eucharistic Liturgy
- Holy Sacrament
- Last Rites