viaticum

Example Sentences

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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

That is my comfort and my viaticum and-- Enough; I am glad to get out of this place; rather would I spin thistles than stay here a day longer.

From Edelweiss A Story by Auerbach, Berthold

These words were intended by him as a viaticum for her, but they were really to be a legacy of love to his favorite child.

From Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) by Howe, Julia Ward

The 13th Canon of the Council of Nice ordains that none "be deprived of his perfect and most necessary viaticum when he departs out of this life."

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

The priests had the power of forcing their way into the dying man's house, where they presented themselves at his bedside, and offered him conversion and the viaticum.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel