'last rites' definitions:
Definition of 'last rites'
From: WordNet
noun
A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation [syn: anointing of the sick, extreme unction, last rites]
noun
Rites performed in connection with a death or burial
Synonyms of 'last rites'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- burial service,
- chrism,
- chrismal,
- chrismation,
- chrismatory,
- chrisom,
- deathwatch,
- dirge,
- eulogy,
- exequies,
- extreme unction,
- funeral oration,
- funeral rites,
- last duty,
- last honors,
- last offices,
- obsequies,
- ointment,
- requiem,
- requiem mass,
- sacramental anointment,
- sacred unction,
- unction,
- viaticum,
- wake