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At the moment of death. (In law, especially canon, or church, law, this expression can mean that someone has been given special permission by a competent authority to enter an organization or to receive some sort of exemption or permission at some point not long before they die, such as receiving diaconal or presbyteral ordination or entering religious profession.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: in the article of death
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from Latin in articulō mortis (literally “in the article of death”), from in (“during; at”, preposition governing the ablative) + articulō, ablative singular form of articulus (“a joint; figuratively: a point in time, a moment”) + mortis, genitive singular of mors (“death”).
Across languages
Translations
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Czech:
v okamžik u smrti
— at the moment of death
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Finnish:
kuolinhetkellä
— at the moment of death
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French:
à l'article de la mort
— at the moment of death
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Polish:
w obliczu śmierci
— at the moment of death
