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sacramentary

sacramentary is the archaic form of sacramental.

sacramentary is the alternative form of Sacramentary.

Meaning of sacramental

Adjective

sacramental (comparative more sacramental, superlative most sacramental)

  1. Used in, or relating to, a sacrament.
    • The altar boys got in trouble after they were caught sampling the sacramental wine instead of just passing it to the priest before communion.

See all 2 meanings of sacramental

Noun

sacramentary (plural sacramentaries)

  1. An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.

Forms of sacramentary

pluralsacramentaries

Origin of sacramentary

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin sacramentarium; compare French sacramentaire.

Questions about sacramentary

What does sacramentary mean?
Sacramentary means an ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.
What is sacramentary the archaic form of?
Sacramentary is the archaic form of sacramental.
What part of speech is sacramentary?
Sacramentary is a noun.
What is the plural of sacramentary?
The plural of sacramentary is sacramentaries.

Words near sacramentary in the dictionary

  1. sacramentarians
  2. sacramentaries
  3. sacramentarism
  4. sacramentarist
  5. sacramentarists
  6. sacramentary
  7. sacramented
  8. Sacramenter
  9. Sacramenters
  10. sacramenting
  11. sacramentism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sacramentary (page history and authors); sacramental (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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