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Rubbed with oil in a rite
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anointed
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Word definitions for anointed in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "smeared with oil," past participle adjective from anoint (v.). Noun meaning "a consecrated one" (as in Lord's Anointed ) is recorded from 1520s.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anoint \A*noint"\ ([.a]*noint"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anointed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Anointing .] [OF. enoint, p. p. of enoindre, fr. L. inungere; in + ungere, unguere, to smear, anoint. See Ointment , Unguent .] To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous ...
Usage examples of anointed.
The Anointed had helped him, but only out of the basest of motives, and never as openly or effectively as John might have liked.
Throughout the remaining conversation the Anointed was visibly tired and irritable, while John was simply impatient to be done and leave.
He would need a tribe where the government was not as jealous of its power as the Anointed of the Chosen.
John guessed that the Anointed did, indeed, equate physical strength with ambition and power, and allowed no big strong men into positions of power lest they one day overthrow him.
That seemed odd, since the Anointed himself was so grotesquely fat that the effort of hauling his own weight around left him with little strength for anything else.
Perhaps that was another reason that the Anointed had wanted nothing to do with them.
Grace would be permitted to discuss the possibility of trade with the Anointed the following morning.
Anointed ship were working properly, holding the Anointed in place as they had been so lovingly arranged.
At least the Gateway had brought the spinners to the Anointed and not sent them each off to some unexplained destination where they would be forever wandering.
Even the ship of the Anointed was strange once they were through the Gateway.
Riutta echoed She stopped and gazed at the hundreds of Anointed in their imitation of life.
Such luxury for those who had ceased to enjoy it The Anointed deserved everything, even pleasures they could never realize.
I want to see their logs, their drawings, what they say about themselves, about that ship, the Anointed, their historyeverything.
Using it as a club, he began hammering disrespectfully on the nearest Anointed, a male teenager with muscular shoulders and a terrible bone-deep wound across the entire front of his body, which had probably killed him.
This is my one chance to get control over my ship, my crew, the Blood, the Anointed, and you.