Word Meanings - ANOINT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6. 2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon,

Additional info about word: ANOINT

1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6. 2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head and anoint him. Exod. xxix. 7. Anoint Hazael to be king over Syria. 1 Kings xix. 15. The Lord's Anointed, Christ or the Messiah; also, a Jewish or other king by "divine right." 1 Sam. xxvi. 9.

Related words: (words related to ANOINT)

• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• STIFFENER
  One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• STIFFENING
  1. Act or process of making stiff. 2. Something used to make anything stiff. Stiffening order , a permission granted by the customs department to take cargo or ballast on board before the old cargo is out, in order to steady the ship.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• ANOINTMENT
  The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, an ointment. Milton.
• BLINDNESS
  State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
• BLIND; BLINDE
  See BLENDE
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• BLINDFISH
  A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• ANOINT
  1. To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6. 2. To apply oil to or to pour oil upon,
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• SMEARCASE
  Cottage cheese.
• SMEAR
  akin to D. smeren, OHG. smirwen, G. schmieren, Icel. smyrja to 1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak. 2. To soil in any way;
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• BLINDER
  One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinds.
• BLINDAGE
  A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
• APPLY
  attach to; ad + plicare to fold, to twist together. See Applicant, 1. To lay or place; to put or adjust ; -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. He said, and the sword his
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• BESMEARER
  One that besmears.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• DISANOINT
  To invalidate the consecration of; as, to disanoint a king. Milton.
• STONE-BLIND
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.