sacrament
sa kruh muhnt
- n 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
- Like all good Catholics he received the sacrament of baptism in infancy, that of confirmation in youth, those of the Eucharist and penance frequently thereafter.
- The sacrament of penance, known more familiarly to Roman Catholics as "confession," has fallen on lean days.
- In real life as well as in countless novels, plays and films, the arrival of a priest to administer the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning .