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Noun: last rites
  1. A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation
    - anointing of the sick, extreme unction
     
  2. Rites performed in connection with a death or burial

Type of: religious rite, rite, sacrament

Encyclopedia: Last rites

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