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viaticum

[vahy-at-i-kuhm, vee-] / vaɪˈæt ɪ kəm, vi- /




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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

An ambitious young officer was allowed a liberal viaticum for a journey across the sea to seek promotion.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill

The viaticum is the tramp-money that may be claimed from his guild by the travelling workman. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

He asked the father to come and say mass, and to give him the viaticum.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

It is a procession, going to carry the viaticum, the last sacrament, to a dying person.

From To Cuba and Back by Richard Henry Dana




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