1. The act of applying oil or an oily liquid
   - anointment

1. Choose by or as if by divine intervention
   "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group" 
2. Administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
   - inunct, oil, anele [archaic], embrocate

Derived forms: anointings

See also: anointer

Type of: application, bless, choose, coating, covering, pick out, select, take

Encyclopedia: Anoint

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