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anointed, ppl. a.|əˈnɔɪntɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Smeared or rubbed with any unctuous matter; esp. having had oil poured on, as a sacred rite.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. iii. 36 Þise ben faire þinges and enoyntid wiþ hony swetnesse of rethorike and musike. c1440Morte Arth. 50 He..Mad of his cosyns kyngys ennoyntede. 1528More Heresyes iii. Wks. 1557, 222/2 Priest..in our owne tongue hath alway sygnified an enoynted parson. 1595Shakes. John iii. i. 136 Haile you annointed deputies of heauen. 1727Pope Dunc. iii. 2 On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd. 1735Bolingbroke Parties 14 That anointed Pedant. 1827Keble Chr. Year S. Matthias x, By Thine anointed heralds duly crown'd.
2. fig. Consecrated, sacred. rare.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars iii. xxiii, Barring th' Anointed Liberty of Laws.
3. absol. (formerly as n. with pl.) A consecrated one. the Lord's Anointed: Christ or the Messiah; also, a king by ‘divine right.’
1529Frith Epist. Chr. Reader (1829) 467 False prophets and false Christs (that is to say, false anointed). 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. i. 14 To laye thine hande vpon the Lordes anointed [Wyclif, to slee the crist of the Lord]. 1602T. Fitzherbert Defence 25 Thou art Messias, that is to say, the anoynted, or as we commonly say, Christ. 1611Bible Is. xlv. 1 Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed, to Cyrus. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. 30 Christ carries royaltie upon the back, above all Anointeds. 1727Pope Hor. Ep. ii. i. 389 No Lord's anointed, but a Russian Bear. 1883Daily News 14 Feb. 5/4 If he went through Western France, and was acclaimed..as the Lord's anointed. |