During the first five hundred years or so of the history of the Roman Catholic Church, it was always the case that the sacraments of Christian initiation were celebrated in an invariable sequence: Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist.
loon (plural loons) 1  idler, lout. ( 2 chiefly Scotland, Ulster) boy, lad. ( 3 chiefly Scotland) harlot; mistress. ( chiefly Scotland) 1  simpleton. (slang) crazy or deranged person. ( Ireland) English Soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland.
Taxonomy[edit] The common loon is one of the five loon species that make up the genus Gavia, the only genus of the family Gavidae and order Gaviiformes. Its closest relative is the other large black-headed species, the yellow-billed loon or white-billed diver, Gavia adamsii.