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annoint

vb. (context nonstandard English) (alternative spelling of anoint English)

Usage examples of "annoint".

I skipped my flossing for once, did a left-handed toothbrushing, and annointed myself with an inexpensive drugstore cologne that smelled like lilies of the valley.

The women had their haire annointed and their heads covered with linnen : but the men had their crownes shaven, which were the terrene stars of the goddesse, holding in their hand instruments of brasse, silver and gold, which rendered a pleasant sound.

Strictly between ourselves, the said revered employer is an annointed fraud.

Before leaving the house, he had been bathed, and annointed with a thick fragrant oil, and with a tiny silver scissors Mrs.

While it was still dusk, the Greasy Girls began to come out of their houses, heads shaved clean, bodies almost naked, all skin surfaces annointed with some ointment which made them shine in the shadows like slime-wet frogs.

He fed him a ceremonial wafer, annointed his feet, and read, passages from a timeworn book.

Bible, Judith annointed herself with perfumes, including lavender, before seducing Holofernes, the enemy commander.

And in time he came to a great hedge and a gate with a little brick lodge, and when he rang the bell there hobbled to admit him no robed and annointed lackey of the palace, but a small stubby old man in a smock who spoke as best he could in the quaint tones of far Cornwall.

Each and every one of whom, naturally, luxuriated in the grandiose titles with which those mundane occupations were invariably annointed by Roman official custom: tabularii, scrinarii, cornicularii, commentarienses, magister libellorum, magister studiorum, speculatores, beneficiarii .

Sixthly, it is affirmed, that if you cannot get the Weapon, yet if you put an Instrument of Iron, or Wood, resembling the _Weapon_, into the _Wound_, whereby it bleedeth, the Annointing of that Instrument will serve, and work the Effect.

A second and a third time Siric rode the circuit of trees, each time fire annointing each tree except the first.

Alisande gestured down-slope, and Sauvignon turned, surprised, to see the priest who had accompanied the expedition on his knees in the mud, his vial of blessed oil in his hand, marking the Sign of the Cross on each dead soldier, reciting the words of the last annointing in a quick mutter before he rose and went on to the next corpse.