anointed

• My feet were massaged and anointed, the many small scratches and abrasions on my calves were tended, and then two young women smoothed a buttery unguent onto them. —  Robin Hobb
• While Friend Barton was thus freshly anointed, and "abundantly encouraged," his wife, Rachel, was talking with Dorothy in the low upper chamber, known as the "wheel-room Dorothy was spinning wool on the big wheel, dressed in her light calico short-gown and brown quilted petticoat; her arms were bare, and her hair was gathered away from her flushed cheeks and knotted behind her ears. —  Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
• Methinks I am a child The Lord's anointed is a prisoner now in the light grating of a bright kiosk, and never gazes on the world he conquered. —  Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
• The corpse's head is anointed, then it is smoke-dried and laid in the grave at full length, stones or earth being piled on it. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• The candidate, as early as the third century, was exorcised before baptism, with a view to the expulsion of evil spirits; [480:7] and, in some places, after the application of the water, when the kiss of peace was given to him, a mixture of milk and honey was administered, [480:8] He was then anointed, and marked on the forehead with the sign of the cross. —  The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution

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