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Viaticum vs Allowance - What's the difference?

viaticum | allowance |

As nouns the difference between viaticum and allowance

is that viaticum is the eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death while allowance is the act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.

As a verb allowance is

to put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.

viaticum

English

(wikipedia viaticum)

Noun

(viatica)
  • The Eucharist, when given to a person who is dying or one in danger of death.
  • *1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 37:
  • *:from Anglo-Saxon times there had been a deep conviction that to receive the viaticum was a virtual death sentence which would make subsequent recovery impossible.
  • Provisions, money, or other supplies given to someone setting off on a long journey (often figurative).
  • *1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 20:
  • *:Towards night-fall he entered a town called Sa’adiyah where he alighted and took out somewhat of his viaticum and ate
  • *1971 , Anthony Burgess, M/F , Penguin 2004, p. 184:
  • *:That viaticum I had been made to drink had undoubtedly been spiked with cantharides or something

    • allowance

    English

    (wikipedia allowance)

    Alternative forms

    * allowaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  • * Without the king's will or the state's allowance. --
  • Acknowledgment.
  • * The censure of the which one must in your allowance overweigh a whole theater of others. --
  • That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  • * I can give the boy a handsome allowance. -- .
  • Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
  • * After making the largest allowance for fraud. -- .
  • (commerce) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
  • A child's allowance; pocket money.
    • She gives her daughters each an allowance of thirty dollars a month.
  • (minting) A permissible deviation in the fineness and weight of coins, owing to the difficulty in securing exact conformity to the standard prescribed by law.
  • (obsolete) approval; approbation
    • (Crabbe)
  • (obsolete) license; indulgence
    • (John Locke)

    Synonyms

    * (money) * (minting) (l), (l)

    Verb

    (allowanc)
  • To put upon a fixed allowance (especially of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity.
    • The captain was obliged to allowance his crew.
    Our provisions were allowanced .