sacramental
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- adjective
- /ˌsækrəˈmɛntəl/
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sacramental
- Many believers find peace and comfort in sacramental practices such as baptism and Eucharist.
- sacramental life
- sacramental theology
- sacramental marriage
Examples
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If baptized nonbelievers cannot enter into a valid sacramental marriage, can they marry at all?
Academic text (1991) -
Fifth, Faith and Order does something new with the old debates on the sacramental nature of the church.
Academic text (2015) -
Is the sacramental element there?
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We are sacramental beings of light and good.
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In this practice, the written Word becomes the sacramental Word; the Word read becomes Word consumed.
Academic text (2000) -
One cannot have a right sacramental intention without at least a minimum of personal faith.
Academic text (1991) -
To some degree, they too lived off the biblical and sacramental patrimony of the Catholic Church.
Academic text (1990) -
When we are in sacramental communion with Christ, we are in sacramental communion with one another.
Academic text (2015) -
The second dispute concerned the precise point in the threefold sacramental process at which reconciliation takes place.
Academic text (2008) -
The return to time-honored ecclesiastical and sacramental rites.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
The act of receiving bread and wine during Christian Communion
How Sacramental
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Sacramental comes from sacrament, which comes from the Latin sacramentum and sacer meaning 'holy' or 'sacred'. So, something sacramental is connected to a 'holy' sign or action, like baptism or communion, and that is why the word describes things about a sacrament.