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anointer|əˈnɔɪntə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. One who anoints.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Untador, an annointer, Vnctor. 1655Mouffet & Benn. Health's Impr. (1746) 74 Perfumers, Anointers, and Bath-masters. 1752J. Gill Trinity iii. 61 The Anointer is the Spirit of the Lord. 1845Eng. Saints, St. Aug. iv. 37 Kings were anointed..and were soon afterwards put to death, without trial, by their anointers.
2. Applied to a religious sect of the 17th c.
1677R. Plot Oxfordsh. xxxviii. (T.) At Watlington, in Oxfordshire, there was a sect called Anointers, from their anointing people before they admitted them into their communion. |