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- 3. a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for religious instruction
- 4. to make or declare sacred; set apart or dedicate to the service of a deity:
- 6. capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.:
- 8. rite administered to baptized persons, in some churches as a sacrament for confirming and strengthening the recipient in the Christian faith, in others as a rite without sacramental character by which the recipient is admitted to full communion with the church.
- 9. a ceremonial immersion in water, or application of water, as an initiatory rite or sacrament of the Christian church.
- 11. to consecrate or make sacred in a ceremony that includes the token applying of oil:
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- 1. characteristic of, pertaining to, or derived from living organisms:
- 2. of or relating to the church or the clergy; churchly; clerical; not secular.
- 5. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace
- 6. the sacrament of Holy Communion; the sacrifice of the Mass; the Lord's Supper.
- 7. the state of being married; marriage:
- 10. strict or thorough in the performance of duty: