Word Meanings - ABLUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing

Additional info about word: ABLUTION

A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. 2. The water used in cleansing. "Cast the ablutions in the main." Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABLUTION)

• Abduction
• Abstraction
• subtraction
• deprivation
• ablution
• rape
• seizure
• appropriation

Related words: (words related to ABLUTION)

• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• SUBTRACTION
  The taking of a lesser number or quantity from a greater of the same kind or denomination; an operation for finding the difference between two numbers or quantities. (more info) 1. The act or operation of subtracting or taking away a part.
• SEIZURE
  1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• ABDUCTION
  The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (more info) 1. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. Roget.
• ABSTRACTIONIST
  An idealist. Emerson.
• ABLUTION
  A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. (more info) 1. The act of washing
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• ABLUTIONARY
  Pertaining to ablution.
• DISAPPROPRIATION
  The act of disappropriating.
• RESEIZURE
  A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.
• MISAPPROPRIATION
  Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
• DISSEIZURE
  Disseizin. Speed.