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Last rites

noun

A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation. Synonyms: anointing of the sick, extreme unction.

Rites performed in connection with a death or burial.

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... brought on the Georgia while Maury read the service over the body and consigned it to the deep by the flames of the dead man's own vessel. What noble, tender, manly hearts it shows, those rough seamen stopping in their work of destruction to perform the last rites over their dead enemy. One can fancy their bare heads and sunburned faces standing in solemn silence around the poor dead man when he dropped into his immense ...

— A Confederate Girl's Diary • Sarah Morgan Dawson

... the horror of it all. A soldier approached him with a message from Don Mario. The condemned man was asking for the last rites. Faint and trembling, the priest accompanied the messenger ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... administered in Kerrycurrihy, Rostellan, West Muskerry, and Spike Island, Co. Cork. When a chief parishioner lies seriously ill in distant Corca Duibhne, Mochuda himself comes all the way from the centre of Ireland to administer the last rites to the dying ...

— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous

... the last rites, was purified and absolved, in the midst of his friends and his servants on their bended knees, without any movement of his face indicating that ...

— A Comedy of Marriage & Other Tales • Guy De Maupassant

... a church. The Italians have an excessive dread of corpses, and never meddle with those of their nearest and dearest relatives. They have a horror of death, too, especially of sudden death, and most particularly of apoplexy; and no wonder, as it gives no time for the last rites of the Church, and so exposes them to a fearful risk of perdition forever. On the whole, the ancient practice was, perhaps, the preferable one; but Nature has made it very difficult for us to do anything pleasant and satisfactory with a dead body. God knows ...

— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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