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anointing
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Anointing is the ritual act of pouring aromatic oil over a person's head or entire body. By extension, the term is also applied to related acts of sprinkling, dousing, or smearing a person or object with any perfumed oil, milk, butter, or other fat. Scented ...
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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 ...
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n. anointment vb. (present participle of anoint English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of applying oil or an oily liquid [syn: anointment ]
Usage examples of anointing.
The anointing takes place at the Bethany home of Lazarus, Mary and Martha, and it is Mary who performs the anointing.
Even so, according to them the anointing took place at the house of one Simon the Leper.
Both the anointing of the live Jesus and the intended anointing of his corpse are ritual acts of great significance, and if nothing else they connect the two women.
It is this air of distastefulness that, intentionally or otherwise, has effectively detracted from the true significance of the anointing of Jesus.
There is, of course, only one anointing of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels.
If the anointing of Jesus had been a frivolous or meaningless gesture it would never have been recorded at all.
If true, this may explain why the anointing seemed so foreign to the other disciples, although there is still the apparent problem as to why Jesus should be so tolerant of it.
If Mary of Bethany were really a pagan priestess, why was she anointing Jesus?
This is a clear link between the anointing of Jesus and the Song of Songs.
She it was who bestowed his Messiahship by ritually anointing him with spikenard, and if the idea that she was wealthy is correct, then perhaps her influence made the initiatory and magical rite of the Crucifixion possible.
The fragment contains parts of two familiar episodes, the anointing of Jesus by Mary of Bethany and the instigation of the eucharist at the Last Supper, both of which are important in our investigation, and such an early date would support the arguments put forward in Chapters Twelve and Thirteen.
Gospels have no great knowledge of the politics and practices of the time, and so for them this anointing seems incidental, a mark of respect perhaps, or as some church commentators have argued, an ornate ceremony for greeting an honored guest.
Little Bear family shamans left the hogan while Father Ombroz administered the last anointing to his oldest convert.
The anointing of kings was not absolutely necessary under the Old Testament, for we read not that all the kings of Judah and Israel were anointed.
Christ being now come, all those ceremonies cease: and, therefore, the anointing of kings ought not to be used in the New Testament.