Viaticum Definition

vī-ătĭ-kəm, vē-
viatica, viaticum
noun
In ancient Rome, money or supplies provided as traveling expenses to an officer on an official mission.
Webster's New World
The Eucharist as given to a dying person or to one in danger of death.
Webster's New World
Money or supplies for any journey.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Viaticum

Noun

Singular:
viaticum
Plural:
viatica

Origin of Viaticum

  • From Latin viāticum (“travelling-money, provisions for a journey"), from viāticus (“of a road or journey"), from via (“road").

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin viāticum from Latin traveling provisions from neuter of viāticus viatic viatical

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Viaticum Sentence Examples

  • Thereupon, in defiance of the archbishop, the abbe Baradere gave him the viaticum, while the rite of extreme unction was administered by the abbe Guillon, an opponent of the civil constitution, without consulting the archbishop or the parish cure.

  • The fathers, however, of the 4th century emphasized already the danger of deferring the rite until men fall into mortal sickness, when they may be unconscious or paralysed or otherwise unable to profess their faith and repentance, or to swallow the viaticum.

  • His son Moses, who died about the end of the 13th century, translated the rest of Maimonides, much of Averroes, the lesser Canon of Avicenna, Euclid's Elements (from the Arabic version), Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum, medical works of IIunain ben Isaac (Johannitius) and Razi (Rhazes), besides works of less-known Arabic authors.

  • On the death-bed it could even, like the Catholic Viaticum, take the place of the rite of Consolamentum, if this could not be performed.

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Words Starting With

VVIVIA

Words Ending With

MUMCUM

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With V and Ending With M

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