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One who holds extreme opinions regarding the efficacy of sacraments.

Of or pertaining a sacrament or the sacraments; sacramental.

To administer the sacraments. [R.] Both to preach and sacramentize. Fuller.

onstituent parts. The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament. Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

One who recognizes three sacraments, and no more; -- namely, baptism, the Lord's Supper, and penance. See Sacrament.

To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. [Obs.]

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.

ispense; to serve out; to supply; execute; as, to administer relief, to administer the sacrament. [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

clined to, or symptomatic of, apoplexy; as, an apoplectic person, medicine, habit or temperament, symptom, fit, or stroke.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Attemperament.

The act of baptizing; the application of water to a person, as a sacrament or religious ceremony, by which he is initiated into the visible church of Christ. This is performed by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring.

To administer the sacrament of baptism to.

Choleric; passionate; ill tempered. "A bilious old nabob." Macaulay. Bilious temperament. See Temperament.

g qualities characteristic of oxen or cows; sluggish and patient; dull; as, a bovine temperament. The bovine gaze of gaping rustics. W. Black.

To perforn or participate in, as a sacrament or solemn rite; to solemnize; to perform with appropriate rites; as, to celebrate a marriage.

A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

gry; indicating anger; excited by anger. "Choleric speech." Sir W. Raleigh. Choleric temperament, the bilious temperament.