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disanoint, v.|dɪsəˈnɔɪnt| [f. dis- 6 + anoint.] trans. To undo the anointing or consecration of. Hence disaˈnointed, disaˈnointing ppl. adjs.
1648Milton Tenure Kings (1649) 2 They have..bandied and borne armes against their King, devested him, disanointed him. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 98 For Fate Had pour'd a mortal oil upon his head, A disanointing poison. 1867Trench Shipwrecks Faith 47 There is something unutterably pathetic in that yearning of the disanointed King [Saul]. 1871Swinburne Songs bef. Sunrise, Halt bef. Rome 175 His blessings, as other men's curses Disanoint where they consecrate Kings. |