Sacramental meaning

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Of, relating to, or used in a sacrament.
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Consecrated or bound by or as if by a sacrament.

A sacramental duty.

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Having the force or efficacy of a sacrament.
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A rite, act, or sacred object used by some Christian churches in worship.
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Of or relating to a sacrament.
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Being or resembling a sacrament.
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Something, as the use of holy water, instituted or approved by the Church as a pious means of petitioning divine help and favor.
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Used in, or relating to, a sacrament.

The altar boys were sacked after they were caught sampling the sacramental wine instead of just passing it to the priest before communion.

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(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.

Sentence Examples

  • Bakehouse for sacramental r.

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

  • 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.

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

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