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last rites

  1. final rites and prayers for a dead person
  2. sacraments administered to a person near death

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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