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anointing|əˈnɔɪntɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. gen. The action of applying grease or oil to the surface of the body. (Often gerundial.)
1303R. Brunnne Handl. Synne 11985 Anoyntyng ys gode for body sore. 1440Promp. Parv., Anoyntynge, or enoyntynge, Inunctio. 1635Hakewill Apol. 390 (T.) Their bathings and anointings before their feasts. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxvii, The salutary custom of bathing the limbs in water and of anointing them with oil.
2. spec.
a. The application of oil, as a sign of consecration to a sacred office.
1382Wyclif Ex. xxx. 31 This oyle of anoyntyng holy it shal be to me. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls Ser.) VI. 159 By the noyntynge of holy creame. 1529Rastell Pastyme (1811) 8 The crownyng and noyntyng of the kyng. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. Pop. iv. (1851) 105 One that..had wash'd off that anointing of his, whether Sacred or Civil, with the Blood of his own Subjects. 1820A. Taylor (title) The Glory of Regality; an Historical Treatise of the Anointing and Crowning of the Kings and Queens of England.
†b. last anointing of the sick: extreme unction.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 3409 Last enoyntyng gyven to þe seke. a1400Relig. Pieces fr. Thornt. MS. 8 The fyfte sacrament es þe laste enoyntynge with oyle.
c. fig.
1382Wyclif 1 John ii. 20, 27 Ȝe han anoyntyng [v.r. unccioun] of the Holy Goost. His anoyntyng techith ȝou of alle thingis. 1611ibid., The same anointing teacheth you of all things.
†3. An anointing material, ointment, unguent.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxviii. 7 The oynement makere shal make pymentis of swotenesse, and enoyntingus [1388 anoyntyngis] he shal make of helthe. 1561J. Daus Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 144 b, Oyle is a resemblaunce of the holy Ghost, wherfore S. John calleth also the holy Ghost an annoyntyng.
4. attrib.
1611Bible Lev. x. 7 The anointing oyle of the Lord is vpon you. 1636Healey Theophrast. 46 Being at a Barbars shop or an anointing place. |