dictionary help| viaticum | medical dictionary |
1. An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.
2. Provisions for a journey.
3. The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.
Origin: L, from viaticus, a. See Viatic.
(01 Mar 1998)
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