anointing of the sick

English Thesaurus

1. a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation (noun.act)

hypernym	:	sacrament,
definition	:	a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction (noun.act)