viaticum

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The voice of the poet deepens steadily right up to his viaticum, delivered to the world at war: We live in a camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus it was not a simple viaticum for protection during the journey from Bohemia, and it was not so regarded by any one.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Next we sought out the moneychangers in their dens, to transmute William's viaticum bit by bit into four foreign currencies.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various

He asked for the viaticum, and reconciliation was granted; and almost in the same moment his perfidy was renounced by his mouth and dissolved by his death.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

He said the mass, and paused when he came to the viaticum.

From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)