Last Rites

  

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Last Rites

Definitions: Last Rites

Last Rites

Noun

1. A Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation.

2. Rites performed in connection with a death or burial.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Last Rites

Synonyms: anointing of the sick (n), extreme unction (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Last Rites

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Screenplays

I have given them the last rites, now, you do what you will. (Dawn of the Dead; writing credit: George A. Romero)

Movie/TV Titles

The Last Rites of Passage (2002)

Last Rites (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Last Rites

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Books

  • First Love, Last Rites (reference)

  • Last Rites (Rogue Agent, No 4) (reference)

  • Last Rites (The Destroyer, No 100) (reference)

  • Last Rites and Other Poems (reference)

  • Last Rites for the Tipu Maya: Genetic Structuring in a Colonial Cemetery (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Last Rites

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Gives "Last Rites" to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin (CV-13), after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945. The crewman is reportedly Robert C. Blanchard, who survived his injuries.Credit: NAVY.

Who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving as a Chaplain with the 3rd Battalion, Fifth Marines in Vietnam. He was killed in action in Quang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam, on 4 September 1967, while administering medical aid and Last Rites to wounded Marines on the battlefield.Credit: NAVY.

Gives "Last Rites" to an injured crewman aboard USS Franklin (CV-13), after the ship was set afire by a Japanese air attack, 19 March 1945. The crewman is reportedly Robert C. Blanchard, who survived his injuries.Credit: NAVY.

A Chaplain reads the Last Rites service as Lieutenant (Junior Grade) David H. Swenson is buried at sea from USS Toledo (CA-133), off Inchon, Korea. He had been killed by North Korean artillery while his ship, USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) was bombarding enemy positions on Wolmi-do island, Inchon, on 13 September 1950. Lyman K. Swenson is in the background, with her crew at quarters on deck.Credit: NAVY.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Last Rites

Language Translations for "last rites"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

letzte ölung (extreme unction). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astlay itesray

   

Turkish

  

son nefeste yapılan kutsama. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Last Rites

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s-s-t-t"

-1 letter: artistes, artsiest, realists, saltiers, saltiest, saltires, slatiest, slitters, starlets, startles, striates, tertials.

-2 letters: airless, artiest, artiste, artists, artless, attires, iratest, lasters, latests, listers, litters, ratites, rattles, realist, relists, resails, retails, sailers, salters, saltest, saltier, salties, saltire, satires, serails, serials, sitters, slaters, slatier, slitter, stalest, starets, starlet, starlit, startle, staters, straits, striate, tailers, tasters, tastier, tertial, tilters, tsarist.

-3 letters: airest, aisles, alerts, alters, ariels, arises, artels, artist, assert, asters, attire, estral, islets, istles, lasers, lassie, laster, latest, latter, lattes, leasts, lister, liters, litres, litter, raises, rassle, ratels, ratite, rattle, relist, resail, resist, retail, retial, sailer, salter, saltie, satire, serail, serais, serial, siesta, sister, sistra, sitars, sitter, slater, slates, sliest, stairs, staler, stales, stares, starts, stater, states, steals, stelai, stelar, stiles, stilts, strait, strati, striae, tailer, talers, tassel, tasset, tassie, taster, tastes, taters, terais, teslas, testis, tetras, tilers, tilter, titers, titles, titres, trails, traits, treats, trials, triste.

-4 letters: airts, aisle, alert, alist, alter, ariel, arils, arise, arles, arses, arsis, artel, asset, aster, astir, atilt, earls, easts, irate, isles, islet, istle, lairs, lares, laris, laser, lases, lasts, later, latte, lears, least, liars, liers, liras, lists, litas, liter, litre, rails, raise, rales, rases, ratel, rates, reals, relit, rests, retia, rials, riels, riles, rises, rites, sails, sales, salts, saris, sates, satis, seals, sears, seats, serai, seral, setal, setts, sials, silts, sires, sisal, sitar, sites, slate, slats, slier, slits, stair, stale, stare, stars, start, state, stats, steal, stela, stets, sties, stile, stilt, stirs, stria, taels, tails, taler, tales, tares, tarsi, tarts, tasse, taste, tater, tates, teals, tears, teats, telia, terai, tesla, testa, tests, tetra, tiers, tiler, tiles, tilts, tires, tirls, titer, title, titre, trail, trait, trass, treat, tress, trets, trial, tries, trite, tsars.

-5 letters: ails, airs, airt, aits, ales, alit, alts, ares, aril, arse, arts, ates, earl, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, ilea, ires, isle, lair, lari, lars, lase, lass, last, late, lati, lats, lear, leas, leis, less, lest, lets, liar, lier, lies, lira, lire, list, lite, lits, rail, rale, rase, rate, rats, real, reis, rest, rets, rial, rias, riel, rile, rise, rite, sail, sale, sals, salt, sari, sate, sati, seal, sear, seas, seat, seis, sels, sera, sers, seta, sets, sett, sial, silt, sire, sirs, site, sits, slat, slit, sris, star, stat, stet, stir, tael, tail, tale, tali, tare, tars, tart, tass, tate, tats, teal, tear, teas, teat, tela, tels, test, tets, tier, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tire, tirl, tits, tret, tsar.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-r-s-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: sterilants.

 

+2 letters: centralists, illustrates, literalists, neutralists, recitalists, relativists, rijsttafels, staurolites, straggliest, stridulates, trailerists.

 

+3 letters: antirealists, artillerists, bristletails, clarinetists, crystallites, intercostals, literateness, materialists, mistranslate, orientalists, paternalists, restimulates, salutatories, stigmasterol, terrestrials.

 

+4 letters: assortatively, blatherskites, clarinettists, editorialists, gesticulators, hairsplitters, instrumentals, interstadials, mercantilists, metallurgists, mistranslated, mistranslates, sacerdotalist, semiliterates, spiritualties, stigmasterols, stromatolites, telegraphists, teratologists, traditionless, ultraleftisms, ultraleftists, ultrarealists, versatilities.

 

+5 letters: articulateness, dermatologists, disarticulates, dissertational, electrostatics, illiterateness, immaterialists, intolerantness, keratoplasties, letterspacings, liberationists, literatenesses, melodramatists, misarticulates, overstimulates, precapitalists, restimulations, retranslations, sacerdotalists, sacramentalist, slatternliness, spiritualities, sterilizations, streetwalkings, structuralizes, subliteratures, superstimulate, theatricalisms, thermoplastics, transliterates, transsexuality, triliteralisms, trustabilities, ultradistances, ultrasensitive, watercolorists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Last Rites


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 73 74      52 69 74 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01110011 01110100 00100000 01010010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#82 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0073 0074      0052 0069 0074 0065 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4667858625275867185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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