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from The Century Dictionary.

  • After the manner of a sacrament.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a sacramental manner.

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  • adverb in a sacramental manner

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Examples

  • Reply Obj. 2: God's word operated in the creation of things, and it is the same which operates in this consecration, yet each in different fashion: because here it operates effectively and sacramentally, that is, in virtue of its signification.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • In other cases, though the new corn is not baked in loaves of human shape, still the solemn ceremonies with which it is eaten suffice to indicate that it is partaken of sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • But further, as might have been anticipated, the new corn is itself eaten sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits 1922

  • In other cases, though the new corn is not baked in loaves of human shape, still the solemn ceremonies with which it is eaten suffice to indicate that it is partaken of sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    Chapter 50. Eating the God. § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits 1922

  • But further, as might have been anticipated, the new corn is itself eaten sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • But further, as might have been anticipated, the new corn is itself eaten sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • In other cases, though the new corn is not baked in loaves of human shape, still the solemn ceremonies with which it is eaten suffice to indicate that it is partaken of sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • In other cases, though the new corn is not baked in loaves of human shape, still the solemn ceremonies with which it is eaten suffice to indicate that it is partaken of sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • But further, as might have been anticipated, the new corn is itself eaten sacramentally, that is, as the body of the corn-spirit.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • Reply Obj. 2: Should even an unbeliever receive the sacramental species, he would receive Christ's body under the sacrament: hence he would eat Christ sacramentally, if the word "sacramentally" qualify the verb on the part of the thing eaten.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

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