viaticum
/vahy-at-i-kuhm, vee-/US // vaɪˈæt ɪ kəm, vi- //UK // (vaɪˈætɪkəm) //
维拉蒂亚姆,维拉蒂姆,维拉蒂克姆,维拉提亚姆
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n.名词 noun
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plural vi·at·i·ca [vahy-at-i-kuh, vee-], /vaɪˈæt ɪ kə, vi-/, vi·at·i·cums.
- : Ecclesiastical. the Eucharist or Communion as given to a person dying or in danger of death.
- : a provision or allowance for traveling, originally of transportation and supplies, later of money, made to officials on public missions.
- : money or necessities for any journey.
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The priest may be obliged to administer baptism, to hear confession, to give the Viaticum and Extreme Unction.
This he was able to do, and she declared that she would keep it to be her viaticum when the time of her release should come.
Reconciliation with my friends I do not expect; nor pardon from them; at least, till in extremity, and as a viaticum.
She had not even the viaticum of seeing the phosphorescent star, the floating head of Jao on the water.
The ghostly viaticum being over, the priest and his assistants left the house.
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