Word Finder - anoint

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To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

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To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

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To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.

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To mark somebody as an official ruler, especially a king or queen, as a part of a religious ceremony.

They pray over their sick and, when so requested, anoint them with oil.

Brutus stopped to anoint a bush and then took out ahead of her.

At an earlier date, however, it was usual to anoint the dead.

Besides the full functions of the presbyterate, or priesthood, bishops have the sole right (I) to confer holy orders, (2) to administer confirmation, (3) to prepare the holy oil, or chrism, (4) to consecrate sacred places or utensils (churches, churchyards, altars, &c.), (5) to give the benediction to abbots and abbesses, (6) to anoint kings.

Sunset brought on the Jewish sabbath, but the next evening the women brought spices to anoint the body, and at sunrise on the third day they arrived at the tomb, and saw that the stone was rolled away.

So the Arabs of East Africa anoint themselves with lion's fat in order to gain courage and inspire the animals with awe of themselves.

Jehu, meanwhile, remained at the seat of war, and the prophet Elisha sent a messenger to anoint him king.

The bird is boiled for the sake of the fat, which is used by the heavendoctors to puff on their bodies, and to anoint their lightning-rods."

Remember Samuel came to anoint the new king, and they couldn't even find a new king because he was out.

Thou hast washed in these running waters wherein dogs and swine have been cast night and day and hast cleansed and wiped the outside skin which also the harlots and flutegirls anoint and wash and wipe and beautify for the lust of men; but within they are full of scorpions and all wickedness.

The custom of clothing images is well known in the ancient world, and at the restoration of an Egyptian temple care was taken to anoint the divine limbs and to prepare the royal linen for the god.

The indignation of the pope and his advisers was not deep enough to prevent the ratification in 1803 of a somewhat similar concordat for the Italian Republic. In 1804 Pius consented to anoint Napoleon emperor, thus casting over a conquered crown the halo of legitimacy.

During the procession a chant (also called eiresione) was sung, the text of which has been preserved in Plutarch (Theseus, '22) "Eiresione carries figs and rich cakes; Honey and oil in a jar to anoint the limbs; And pure wine, that she may be drunken and go to sleep."

Blood and fat are used to anoint many of these stones, as well as the tombs of ancestors, and especially those of the Vazimba.

The rite of extreme unction was introduced in the crusading epoch, although it was already usual to anoint the bodies of dead priests.