well-anointedadj.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 426 A man who otherwise all his life time used to be seene abroad, fine, neat, & wel anointed, with a cheeefull [sic] and merrie countenance also [Fr. Aiant accoustumé tout le reste du temps de se monstrer net & propre auec vne face ioyeuse; Gk. εἰωθὼς δὲ ϕαίνεσθαι τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον ἀληλιμμένος τὸ σῶμα καὶ ϕαιδρὸς τῷ προσώπῳ].

1671 J. Sharp Midwives Bk. iv. i. 192 Guide it with your fore-finger well annointed; if it stick or stop any where, take higher hold still with your hooks upon the dead child.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. v. 142 Upon his naked back Her heir sustain'd the well-anointed pack [cadaver unctum oleo largo].

1819 F. D. Astley tr. Horace in Poems & Transl. 166 Now let the myrtle's verdant leaf Our well anointed foreheads bind.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. i. ix. 156 Mr Rappit, the hairdresser, with his well-anointed coronal locks tending wavily upward.

1949 J. V. Ricci Devel. Gynæcol. Surg. & Instruments ix. 203 An immediate and rapid delivery..was done by passing a well anointed hand (lubricated with oil or butter) into the os uteri.

1977 Ski Feb. 89/2 The food was superb, but the feast for the eyes was on the sun deck—a mass of sunburned, well-anointed, firm European bodies.

2004 N. Tyl Sophisticated Gourmet 99 With a 3½–5 pound chicken, well-anointed and seasoned, start off with the 500° temperature established.