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/vʌɪˈatɪkəm/ · noun
(especially Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death..
[…]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.
Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate.
That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something.
Use viaticum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Viaticum means (especially Catholicism) The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death..
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[…]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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