Results for sacrament

Definitions of sacrament:

part of speech: adjective

Sacramental.

part of speech: noun

A holy or sacred ceremony, as baptism; the Eucharist; the Lord's Supper.

part of speech: adverb

SACRAMENTALLY.

part of speech: noun

A solemn religious rite instituted by Christ to be observed by His followers; the Lord's Supper; the Eucharist; baptism; an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; in the R. Cath. and Gr. Ch., baptism, the Eucharist, marriage, penance, confirmation, orders, and extreme unction, are called sacraments.

part of speech: noun

One of the solemn religious rites in the Christian Church, esp. the Lord's Supper: one of the seven " outward signs of inward signs of inward grace" by which, in the R. Cath. Church, grace is conveyed to the soul- they are Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders and Matrimony.

Usage examples for sacrament:

• On the evening before the sacrament I saw that mine own ends were to procure honour, pleasure, gain to myself, and not to the Lord, and I saw how impossible it was for me to seek the Lord for Himself, and to lay up all my honour and all my pleasures in Him. "Bunyan Characters First Series", Alexander Whyte

• I aye like tae see a man gang tae the Song o' Solomon on the Sacrament Sabbath. "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush", Ian Maclaren

• I firmly believe that Thou art really present in the Blessed Sacrament "General Catholic Devotions", Bonaventure Hammer

• As if life were not a continual sacrament to man, since Christ brake the daily bread of it in His hands! "The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I", Elizabeth Barrett Browning