单词 | anointment |
释义 | anointmentn. 1. A substance applied to the skin for cosmetic, medicinal, religious, or ceremonial purposes; oil, ointment. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [noun] > an unguent smerlesa1000 smerla1300 ointmentc1300 nointmenta1375 anointinga1382 anointmenta1382 ointurea1400 uncturec1400 straking1409 linimentc1420 nutritum?a1425 unguentc1440 inunctment1513 unction1580 inunction1601 chrism1850 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xxx. 25 Þou schalt make..anoyntment [L. unguentum] made with þe werk of vnguentary. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) vi. ix. sig. mvii/1 Ye nouryce..batheth hym & anoynteth hym wyth noble anoyntments [a1398 BL Add. 27944 oynementis]. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxvi. 346 Oure anoyntmentys fare and clere That we haue broght. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxv. sig. Xx8v Had giuen her soueraigne annointments, to preserue his body withal. 1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts iv. 102/2 The oyl of [lizards]..drowned, and boyled in oyl with Sheep-dung, is a good anointment for swellings of the neck. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iv. 59 As if your knee-jints were greased with very saint's anointment. 1916 Mod. Hosp. 7 110 (advt.) Obviates the use and expense of gauze, masks and anointments. 2009 L. H. Derby Dictator's Seduction vii. 236 He also drew out malignant forces with his hands, at times using rum or even his own urine as an anointment. 2. a. The action or an act of anointing a person with oil or a similar substance for cosmetic, medicinal, religious, or ceremonial purposes. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > [noun] chrisma1300 enoiling1340 anelingc1350 anointing1357 unctiona1387 ointinga1398 nointinga1400 ointmenta1400 smerlinga1400 anointmentc1440 greasingc1440 oiling1440 enunction?1483 inunction1483 chrismation1537 chrismatory1570 chrisom1725 c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 65 (MED) Anoynte þe gout bi þe fire..& enplaster it to after þe anoyntement. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxxiiii. f. cxviv The whiche penaunce durynge he was kept from the said enoyntement. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral 40 The dying yearned in vain for anointment with the blessed oil. 1957 J. Bishop Day Christ Died (1959) 339 A mixture of myrrh and aloes—which was necessary for the final anointment of the body. 2006 C. Frazier Thirteen Moons ii. vi. 115 Featherstone broke off a branch of redbud blossoms and tapped her on the forehead with the flowers, a motion like anointment. b. The action or an act of appointing a person to an office or position, esp. a divine or sacred office. Cf. anoint v. 3a. ΚΠ 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 17v Who can say that this annointment was gouerned by any art, trauaile or policie of man, & not rather that it was a fulfillyng of the heauenly prophecie? 1621 H. Finch Calling of Iewes 36 The calling and annointment of Christ vnto his office of teaching and comforting Gods people. 1770 in T. Nugent tr. E. Toze Present State Europe III. vii. 101 We Danes..do not call our king's inauguration a coronation, but an anointment. 1813 Monthly Rev. June 127 The clergy awaited only the pretence of an anointment at Rheims. 2013 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Apr. 27/2 Each of these transitions were carefully orchestrated to appear as an anointment or a retirement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < |
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