[f. as prec. + -ER1.]
1. One who anoints.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Untador, an annointer, Vnctor.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 74. Perfumers, Anointers, and Bath-masters.
1752. J. Gill, Trinity, iii. 61. The Anointer is the Spirit of the Lord.
1845. Eng. Saints, St. Aug., iv. 37. Kings were anointed … and were soon afterwards put to death, without trial, by their anointers.
2. Applied to a religious sect of the 17th c.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., viii. 204 (T.). At the Town of Watlington, I was told of a sort of Sectaries.… These by the rest of the people are called Anointers, from the ceremony they use of anointing all persons before they admit them into their Church.
