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Extreme Unction

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One of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, founded on St. James v. 14, “Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the Church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Exponent
Exposé (French)
Express Train
Expressed Oils
Expression
Exquisite
Extensive
Exter
Extinct Species [since the time of man]
Extravagantēs Constitutionēs
Extreme Unction
Extremes Meet
Extricate
Exult (Latin)
Eye
Eye-service
Eye-sore
Eye-teeth
Eye of a Needle
Eye of Greece (The)
Eye of the Baltio (The)

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Extreme Unction