Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To anoint.
- To administer extreme unction to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To anoint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb poetic To
anoint .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "oint" is from a false analogy with the fourth conjugation, as though the Latin had been _doniam_.
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911
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The gun then malfunctioned and at that p oint two other male bystanders were able to subdue Mr. Loughner and take control of his weapon, according to authorities.
Doctors Encouraged by Giffords's Response After Shooting Neil King 2011
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Hence, if one wants to appea oint of fact, jerseys are actual absolute during soccer amateur in the football arena
Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years. 2010
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So this would be the p [oint] in the narrative where I'm supposed to ban you ...
A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Mr. Gauci's testimony about the date varied, according to these documents, and at one p oint he said the clothes were bought on Nov. 29, 1988 not Dec. 7.
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Net contracts excluding unconsolidated j oint ventures fell 13%.
Hovnanian Narrows Its Loss Nathan Becker 2010
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Over half the weight of the shelled and degermed cacao bean is made up of fat, or "cacao butter," a product, Gage noted, "I have seen drawn out ... by the Creole women for to oint their faces."
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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The problem is when some news organizations make a oint of referring to the head of Al Qaeda as Osama vs bin Laden, and take advantage of the similarity to make it easy to slip into the Osama (first name)/Obama (last name) error.
Chris Matthews: Terrorist Tape Came From Obama -- Er, Osama -- Headquarters 2009
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February 27, 2008 at 9:24 am hear, lemmee dab a liddul oint mint onnit.
Young Skywalker – rest now you must… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Every navigation point navPoint has a unique navigation point id and a play order, with the label of that oint and the content source specified.
Creating eBooks: An ePub Tutorial | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008
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