Obs. Forms: 5 enoynte-, 4–7 anoynt-, 6 annoint-. [f. ANOINT + -MENT.]
1. The action or process of anointing.
1494. Fabyan, VI. cxciv. 198. The whiche penaunce durynge, he was kept from the sayd enoyntement.
1593. T. Hyll, Gardening, 139. The same annointment amendeth the foulenes or filthines of the skin.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xxviii. 519. Were that true, which is most fals, that all Kings are the Lords Anointed, it were yet absurd to think that the Anointment of God, should be as it were a charme against Law.
1813. W. Taylor, in Month. Rev., LXXI. 127. The clergy awaited only the pretence of an anointment at Rheims to declare for the right of Charles VII.
2. An anointing material; ointment, unguent, salve.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VI. ix. (1495), 195. She batheth hym and anoynteth hym wyth noble anoyntments.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst. 262. Oure anoyntments fare and clere, That we have broght.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia, III. 315. Had given her soveraign anoyntment to preserve his body withall.
1626. Cockeram, Vnguent, An anoyntment.
