English > sacrament: 1 sense > noun 1, act| Meaning | A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction. |
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| Narrower | Holy Eucharist, Eucharist, sacrament of the Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, Eucharistic liturgy, Lord's Supper | A Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine |
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| anointing of the sick, extreme unction, last rites | A Catholic sacrament |
| baptism | A Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth |
| confirmation | A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church |
| holy order | The sacrament of ordination |
| matrimony | The ceremony or sacrament of marriage |
| penance | A Catholic sacrament |
| Broader | religious ceremony, religious ritual | A ceremony having religious meaning / meaning |
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| Spanish | sacramento |
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| Catalan | sagrament |
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| Adjectives | sacramental | of or relating to or involving a sacrament |
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