[…]from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.
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Viaticum
//vʌɪˈatɪkəm//
Synonyms for "viaticum" (18 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (9)
Related word relations
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Translations
25 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- последно причастие noun (Eucharist)
- храна за из път noun (supplies for journey)
Catalan
1 entries- viàtic noun (Eucharist)
Danish
1 entries- viaticum noun (Eucharist)
Dutch
1 entries- viaticum noun (Eucharist)
Esperanto
1 entries- viatiko noun (Eucharist)
French
2 entries- viatique noun (Eucharist)
- viatique noun (supplies for journey)
German
1 entries- Viatikum noun (Eucharist)
Italian
2 entries- viatico noun (Eucharist)
- viatico noun (supplies for journey)
Old Norse
2 entries- leiðarnest noun (Eucharist)
- nest noun (supplies for journey)
Polish
2 entries- dieta noun (supplies for journey)
- wiatyk noun (Eucharist)
Spanish
2 entries- viático noun (Eucharist)
- viático noun (supplies for journey)
Swedish
4 entries- resepenning noun (supplies for journey)
- viaticum noun (Eucharist)
- viaticum noun (supplies for journey)
- vägkost noun (supplies for journey)
Turkish
4 entries- azık noun (supplies for journey)
- kumanya noun (supplies for journey)
- nevale noun (supplies for journey)
- yolluk noun (supplies for journey)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate.
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That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something.
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