Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun last_rites

2 senses of last rites

Sense 1
anointing of the sick, extreme unction, last rites -- (a Catholic sacrament; a priest anoints a dying person with oil and prays for salvation)
       => sacrament -- (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)

Sense 2
last rites -- (rites performed in connection with a death or burial)
       => rite, religious rite -- (an established ceremony prescribed by a religion; "the rite of baptism")