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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
noint .
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Examples
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She raised herself on one arm, panting, and nointed the gun at the one on top, the one undergoing some horridly busy change inside his clothes.
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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Then the Soldane strictly commaunded, that on some high and eminent place of the Citie, Ambroginolo should be bound and impaled on a stake, having his naked body nointed all over with hony, and never to bee taken off, untill (of it selfe) it fell in peeces, which, according to the sentence, was presently performed.
The Decameron 2004
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Autolycus threatens that the clown's son 'shall be flayed alive; then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest,' &c. In Boccaccio's story the villain
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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And Priamus took from his page a phial, full of four waters that came out of paradise; and with certain balm nointed he their wounds, and washed them with that water, and within an hour after they were both as whole as ever they were.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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"Ees, ees, he be a 'nointed one, zure enou," retorted the fellow, laughing outright in the traveller's face.
The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828
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We are washed, we are 'nointed, stark naked are we;
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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We are washed, we are 'nointed, stark naked are we;
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recovered again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall he be set against a brick-wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies blown to death.
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He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasps nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recovered again with aqua-vitæ or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is, and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall he be set against a brick-wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies blown to death.
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We are washed, we are ‘nointed, stark naked are we;
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