extreme unction

Other forms: extreme unctions

Definitions of extreme unction

1. noun

   a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
   synonyms: anointing of the sick, last rites

   type of:

   sacrament

   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