viaticum

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The voice of the poet deepens steadily right up to his viaticum, delivered to the world at war: We live in a camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next we sought out the moneychangers in their dens, to transmute William's viaticum bit by bit into four foreign currencies.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 by Various

He was anointed; and when he had received the viaticum, he commended himself to the prayers of the brothers, and the brothers to God,869 and went back to bed.

From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Lawlor, Hugh Jackson

The viaticum is the tramp-money that may be claimed from his guild by the travelling workman. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William

He was confessed, and received the sacred viaticum.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen