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Anoint   /ənˈɔɪnt/   Listen
verb
Anoint  v. t.  (past & past part. anointed; pres. part. anointing)  
1.
To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. "And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint." "He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay."
2.
To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. "Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his (Aaron's) head and anoint him." "Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria."
The Lord's Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by "divine right."


Anoint  past part.  Anointed. (Obs.)





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... and hissing in their little way too, and who were all as like goslings as Sherris is like Sack. Little would have lacked for her to give me hot roast goose to my dinner, and goose-pie for supper, and some unguent of goose-grease to anoint my Pate with, had it chanced to be broken; and truly if I had lived under the sign of the Goose for many days, I might have taken to waddling and hissing too in my own Generation, and have been in time as brave a goose as any ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala
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... duchess. "I have an excellent receipt for unguent given me by La Voisin; and, if you promise that I shall not be made to mount the scaffold for my obliging act, I will anoint you myself, whenever ...
— Prince Eugene and His Times • L. Muhlbach
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... worth something, and his Black Moor is worth twice as much were he sound, and I know how to handle him. Take a fat sucking mastiff whelp, flay and bowel him, stuff the body full of black and grey snails, roast a reasonable time, and baste with oil of spikenard, saffron, cinnamon, and honey, anoint with the dripping, ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
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... present at that scene. She did not think that any would be able to perform the last loving rites for that beloved form. She feared that it might be utterly dishonored; but she did what she could, she came beforehand to anoint the Lord's body for ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer
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... reason and virtue, has any other bounds than those of vice and passion? or if vice and passion be boundless, and reason and virtue have certain limits, on which of these thrones holy men should anoint their sovereign? But to blow away this dust, the sovereign power of a commonwealth is no more bounded, that is to say straitened, than that of a monarch; but is balanced. The eagle mounts not to her proper pitch, if she be bounded, nor is free if ...
— The Commonwealth of Oceana • James Harrington
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