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aˈnointment arch.
Forms: 5 enoynte-, 4–7 anoynt-, 6 annoint-.
[f. anoint + -ment.]
1. The action or process of anointing.
1494Fabyan vi. cxciv. 198 The whiche penaunce durynge, he was kept from the sayd enoyntement. 1593T. Hill Gardening 139 The same annointment amendeth the foulenes or filthines of the skin. 1649Milton Eikon. xxviii. 519 Were that true, which is most fals, that all Kings are the Lords Anointed, it were yet absurd to think that the Anointment of God, should be as it were a charme against Law. 1813W. Taylor in Month. Rev. LXXI. 127 The clergy awaited only the pretence of an anointment at Rheims. 1868Milman S. Paul's 40 The dying yearned in vain for anointment with the blessed oil. 1887Hardy Woodlanders I. iv. 59 As if your knee-jints were greased with very saint's anointment.
2. An anointing material; ointment, unguent, salve.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. ix. (1495) 195 She batheth hym and anoynteth hym wyth noble anoyntments. c1460Towneley Myst. 262 Oure anoyntments fare and clere, That we have broght. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. 315 Had given her soveraign anoyntment to preserve his body withall. 1626Cockeram, Vnguent, An anoyntment. |