anoint

Verb

Meaning

To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.

To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.

Anointed.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

oil anele embrocate inunct crown coat petroleum thank baptize consecrate tallow hallow spread apply appoint
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Antonyms

blest infernal bane blight chastise gadfly
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Hypernyms

take choose select bless pick out

Phrases with the word

self-anoint

Derivatives

anointed anointing

Anagrams

nation Tonian tanino

Examples

She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group Source: Internet

A Republican-dominated Supreme Court that just decided that the 1964 Civil Rights Act covers sexual orientation is about to anoint a feudal ecclesiocracy? Source: Internet

At some point, the Democrats will anoint a nominee who could unify the party against Mr. Trump. Source: Internet

Driving the plot is the question of which of his four scheming children ageing billionaire Roy (Brian Cox) will anoint as his successor. Source: Internet

"At 11 am Petrus Canisius Van Lierde as Papal Sacristan was at the bedside of the dying pope, ready to anoint him. Source: Internet

He explained how at Guam "they eat coconuts" ("mangiano cochi") and that the natives there also "anoint the body and the hair with cocoanut and beneseed oil" ("ongieno eL corpo et li capili co oleo de cocho et de giongioli"). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

anoikis anoikism anoil anointable anointed anointee