Anoint: Definition and part of speech

Anoint

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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