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Definitions of anoint in various dictionaries:
verb - choose by or as if by divine intervention
verb - administer an oil or ointment to
To apply oil, ointment, or a similar substance to.
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| Consecrate |
| Choose by divine election |
| Designate |
| Mark for greatness |
| To sanctify using oil |
| Smear |
| Sprinkle oil on |
| Inunct |
| Embrocate |
| Sprinkle with oil |
| Possible Jeopardy Clues |
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| Samuel took a horn of oil & did this to David amidst his brethren |
| Possible Dictionary Clues |
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| smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony. |
| administer an oil or ointment to often in a religious ceremony of blessing |
| Smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony. |
| To apply oil, ointment, or a similar substance to. |
| To put oil on during a religious ceremony as a sign of sanctification or consecration. |
| To choose by or as if by divine intervention. |
| to make someone holy in a religious ceremony by putting holy water or oil on them |
| to make someone king or queen, especially as part of a religious ceremony: |
| to choose someone to do a particular job, usually by a person in authority: |
| to put water or oil on someone in a religious ceremony: |
| Anoint might refer to |
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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 oils are used as perfumes and sharing them is an act of hospitality. Their use to introduce a divine influence or presence is recorded from the earliest times; anointing was thus used as a form of medicine, thought to rid persons and things of dangerous spirits and demons which were believed to cause disease. * In present usage, "anointing" is typically used for ceremonial blessings such as the coronation of European monarchs. This continues an earlier Hebrew practice most famously observed in the anointings of Aaron as high priest and both Saul and David by the prophet Samuel. The concept is important to the figures of the Messiah and the Christ (Hebrew and Greek for "The Anointed One") who appear prominently in Jewish and Christian |