Sacramental Definition

săkrə-mĕntl
adjective
Of or relating to a sacrament.
Webster's New World
Being or resembling a sacrament.
Webster's New World
Having the force or efficacy of a sacrament.
American Heritage
noun
A rite, act, or sacred object used by some Christian churches in worship.
American Heritage
Something, as the use of holy water, instituted or approved by the Church as a pious means of petitioning divine help and favor.
Webster's New World

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) An object (such as holy water or a crucifix) or an action (such as making the sign of the cross) which is regarded as encouraging devotion and thus spiritually aiding the person who uses it.

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Origin of Sacramental

  • From Ecclesiastical Latin sacrāmentālis.

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Sacramental Sentence Examples

  • White is also the colour proper to sacramental processions, and generally to all devotions connected with the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.

  • To this ancient ceremony a sacramental character was given by Pope Alexander III.

  • As we have already intimated, Gnosticism had such a power 1 For the disciples of Valentinus, especially Marcus, after whom was named a separate sect, the Marcosians, with their Pythagorean theories of numbers and their strong tincture of the mystical, magic, and sacramental, see Valentinus And Valentinians.

  • The characteristic features of the book are the importance assigned to the personality of Zerubbabel, who, though a living contemporary, is marked out as the Messiah; and the almost sacramental significance attached to the temple.

  • Haematococcus palustris, Girod (= Chlamydococcus, Braun, Protococcus, Cohn), one of the (Epistola ad Vincentium), who declared that the flagellants were showing a tendency to slight the sacramental confession and penance, were refusing to perform the cullus of the martyrs venerated by the church, and were even alleging their own superiority to the martyrs.

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