† inunctuousadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Not unctuous; without oil or grease.Perhaps a compositional error for inunctions, plural form of inunction n.), though the word is not followed by a comma from 1665.
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inunctuous1634
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. x. xxxii. 395 These things which are to be outwardly applyed, are inunctious, bathes [1665 inunctuous baths],..clysters.
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