sacramental oil

1. 1.

   a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam

   Synonymschrismchrisomholy oil

   Broaderointment

Questions about sacramental oil

What does sacramental oil mean?

sacramental oil means "a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam".

What is another word for sacramental oil?

Close synonyms include chrism, chrisom, holy oil. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sacramental oil a common word?

sacramental oil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.