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    HOLY SACRAMENT

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wineplay

    Synonyms:

    Eucharist; Eucharistic liturgy; Holy Eucharist; Holy Sacrament; Liturgy; Lord's Supper; sacrament of the Eucharist

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting acts or actions

    Hypernyms ("Holy Sacrament" is a kind of...):

    sacrament (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)

    Meronyms (parts of "Holy Sacrament"):

    Offertory (the part of the Eucharist when bread and wine are offered to God)

    Communion; Holy Communion; manduction; sacramental manduction (the act of participating in the celebration of the Eucharist)

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