What is "annointing"

Usage examples of "annointing".

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

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.