Definition of "viaticum" []

• Ecclesiastical The Eucharist given to a dying person or one in danger of death. (noun)
• Supplies for a journey. (noun)

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• "The viaticum is the tramp-money that may be claimed from his guild by the travelling workman."
• "In the course of time "viaticum" was applied to the"
• "Orléans, in his note on this canon says that "viaticum" here means only the reconciliation and absolution granted at the hour of death to public penitents who had not performed the prescribed canonical penance, yet Macri (Hierolexicon) declares that it means simply"