Anoint
[ə'nɒɪnt] or [ə'nɔɪnt]
Definition
(verb.) administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing.
(verb.) choose by or as if by divine intervention; 'She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group'.
Edited by Benson--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
(v. t.) To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
(p. p.) Anointed.
Inputed by Anna
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Smear, rub over with oil or unctuous matter.[2]. Consecrate by unction.
Typist: Shane
Definition
v.t. to smear with ointment or oil: to consecrate with oil.—n. Anoint′ment the act of anointing or state of being anointed.—The Anointed the Messiah.
Typist: Nigel
Unserious Contents or Definition
v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Typed by Brian
Examples
- One of these slaves shall maintain the fire beneath thee, while the other shall anoint thy wretched limbs with oil, lest the roast should burn. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You can anoint it also with urine. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No voice would have had wing enough to rise above the uproar, and Mr. Brooke, disagreeably anointed, stood his ground no longer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He only seemed to say, Defile not Heaven's anointed with unsanctified hands. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So Pepin was chosen king at a gathering of the Frankish nobles in the Merovingian capital Soissons, and anointed and crowned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And so when we have anointed him with myrrh, and set a garland of wool upon his head, we shall send him away to another city. Plato. The Republic.
- Near by is a circular railing which marks the spot where the Virgin stood when the Lord's body was anointed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Soon a rill of clear oil trickled from the carcases, whereupon Clym dipped the corner of his handkerchief into the liquid and anointed the wound. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef suet with which he anoints his hair gives him unnatural strength, and that he is a match for a man. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Editor: Tracy