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

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

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 viaticum was, of necessity, to be omitted on account of the vomiting.

From Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Beste, Henry Digby

While he was receiving the confession of the royal penitent, the cardinal was hurrying to the chapel to get the viaticum for administering the communion, and the holy oil for the rite of extreme unction.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)