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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To apply oil, ointment, or a similar substance to.
  2. v. To put oil on during a religious ceremony as a sign of sanctification or consecration.
  3. v. To choose by or as if by divine intervention.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pour oil upon; smear or rub over with oil or any unctuous substance; hence, to smear with any liquid.
  2. To consecrate, especially a king, priest, or prophet, by unction, or the use of oil.
  3. To serve as an ointment for; lubricate.
  4. Obsolete past participle of anoint.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
  2. v. transitive To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
  2. v. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
  3. obsolete Anointed.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
  2. v. choose by or as if by divine intervention

Etymologies

  1. Old French enoint, past participle of enoindre, from Latin inungere, in + ungere or unguere ("to smear", "to anoint"). See ointment, unguent. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English enointen, from Old French enoint, past participle of enoindre, from Latin inunguere, inūnct- : in-, on; see in-2 + unguere, to smear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (10)

Words with the same meaning

  1. anointed
  2. anele
  1. oint
  2. inunct
  1. smear
  2. oil
  1. grease
  2. chrism
  1. balsam
  2. salve

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. bless
  1. pick out
  1. select
  1. take
  1. choose

rhymes (8)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. appoint
  1. datapoint
  1. disappoint
  1. disjoint
  1. joint
  1. point
  1. pointe
  1. reappoint

reverse dictionary (27)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. noint
  2. enoint
  3. embalm
  4. latch
  5. nard
  1. grease
  2. oint
  3. chrismatize
  4. anele
  5. anoil
  1. balm
  2. balsam
  3. an
  4. aneal
  5. anoint
  1. chrism
  2. fat-liquor
  3. pomade
  4. holy oil
  5. enoil
  1. reanoint
  2. oil
  3. ointment
  4. soorma
  5. liquor
  1. smear
  2. strike

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