Assistance in time of difficulty.
synonyms: relief, succor, succour.
Roget 693:
direction;
management,
managery†;
government,
gubernation†,
conduct,
legislation,
regulation,
guidance;
bossism [U.S.];
legislature;
steerage,
pilotage;
reins,
reins of government;
helm,
rudder,
needle,
compass;
guiding star,
load star,
lode star,
pole star;
cynosure.
supervision,
superintendence;
surveillance,
oversight;
eye of the master;
control,
charge;
board of control
etc.
(council)
696;
command
etc.
(authority)
737.
premiership,
senatorship;
director
etc.
694;
chair,
portfolio.
statesmanship;
statecraft,
kingcraft†,
queencraft†.
ministry,
ministration;
administration;
stewardship,
proctorship†;
agency.
[person who directs]
director
etc.
694.
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Roget 998:
rite;
ceremony,
ritual,
liturgy,
ceremonial;
ordinance,
observance,
function,
duty;
form,
formulary;
solemnity,
sacrament;
incantation
etc.
(spell)
993;
service,
psalmody
etc.
(worship)
990.
ministration;
preaching,
preachment;
predication,
sermon,
homily,
lecture,
discourse,
pastoral.
[Christian ritual for induction into the faith]
baptism,
christening,
chrism;
circumcision;
baptismal regeneration;
font.
confirmation;
imposition of hands,
laying on of hands;
ordination
etc.
(churchdom)
995;
excommunication.
[Jewish rituals]
Bar Mitzvah,
Bas Mitzvah [Fr.],
Bris.
Eucharist,
Lord's supper,
communion;
the sacrament,
the holy sacrament;
celebration,
high celebration;
missa cantata [Lat.];
asperges†;
offertory;
introit;
consecration;
consubstantiation,
transubstantiation;
real presence;
elements;
mass;
high mass,
low mass,
dry mass.
matrimony
etc.
903;
burial
etc.
363;
visitation of the sick.
seven sacraments,
impanation†,
subpanation†,
extreme unction,
viaticum,
invocation of saints,
canonization,
transfiguration,
auricular confession;
maceration,
flagellation,
sackcloth and ashes;
penance
etc.
(atonement)
952;
telling of beads,
processional;
thurification†,
incense,
holy water,
aspersion.
relics,
rosary,
beads,
reliquary,
host,
cross,
rood,
crucifix,
pax [Lat.],
pyx,
agnus Dei [Lat.],
censer,
thurible,
patera†;
eileton†,
Holy Grail;
prayer machine,
prayer wheel;
Sangraal†,
urceus†.
ritualism,
ceremonialism;
sabbatism†,
sabbatarianism†;
ritualist,
sabbatarian†.
holyday,
feast,
fast.
[Christian holy days]
Sabbath,
Pentecost;
Advent,
Christmas,
Epiphany;
Lent;
Passion week,
Holy week;
Easter,
Easter Sunday,
Whitsuntide;
agape,
Ascension Day,
Candlemas†,
Ash Wednesday,
Good Friday,
Holy Thursday;
Lammas,
Martinmas,
Michaelmas;
All SAint's DAy,
All Souls' Day.
[Moslem holy days]
Ramadan,
Ramazan;
Bairam
&c..
etc.
[Jewish holy days]
Passover;
Shabuoth;
Yom Kippur,
Day of Atonement;
Rosh Hashana,
New Year;
Hanukkah,
Chanukkah,
Feast of Lights;
Purim,
Feast of lots.
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Roget 707:
aid,
aidance†;
assistance,
help,
opitulation†,
succor;
support,
lift,
advance,
furtherance,
promotion;
coadjuvancy
etc.
(cooperation)
709†.
patronage,
championship,
countenance,
favor,
interest,
advocacy.
sustentation,
subvention,
alimentation,
nutrition,
nourishment;
eutrophy;
manna in the wilderness;
food
etc.
298;
means
etc.
632.
ministry,
ministration;
subministration†;
accommodation.
relief,
rescue;
help at a dead lift;
supernatural aid;
deus ex machina [Lat.].
supplies,
reinforcements,
reenforcements†,
succors,
contingents,
recruits;
support
etc.
(physical)
215;
adjunct,
ally
etc.
(helper)
711.
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Dutch: bijstand