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Anoint meaning
To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil. | To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration. | To choose or nominate somebody for a leading or otherwise important position, especially formally or officially, or as an intended successor.
Example sentences (20)
When the abbé tried to anoint Talleyrand's palms, as prescribed by the rite, he turned his hands over to make the priest anoint him on the back of the hands, since he was a bishop.
Apart from the three states, would the Congress anoint a new face in Haryana, overlooking veteran Jat leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, if the party comes to power in the state next year?
So while Newton’s comments about Prescott were out of line, maybe we pump the brakes here a little bit before we anoint the Dallas Cowboys’ starter as holier than thou or one of the better dual-threat quarterbacks this league has ever seen.
The gold Ampulla is shaped like an eagle and holds the consecrated oil which will be used to anoint the king – the most sacred part of the ceremony.
The golden ampulla, which dates from 1661, is a flask in the shape of an eagle that holds the holy oil, which was consecrated in Jerusalem in March and will be used to anoint the king.
The holy oil has been created using olives harvested from two groves on the Mount of Olives, at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene and the Monastery of the Ascension, and will be used to anoint the King during the extravagant ceremony.
The oil used to anoint the King and Queen Consort Camilla in the coronation on 6 May will be cruelty-free.
The passionate clergyman urged fellow clergymen to anoint strategic locations in the city as a spiritual battle against opposing forces.
As part of the opaque horse trading that goes on behind closed doors, they will also anoint a prime minister.
I’ve made many trips to anoint patients in the ICU at Oneida Hospital, which can be intense but also very beautiful.
People would have to go through this step-wise, laborious, years-long process before they could get care, then we would, you know, anoint them, and then they would go forward.
Pump him full of meds, strap an ice pack to his leg, anoint him if necessary.
That does not mean the West should ignore them, in particular the election for the assembly, which will anoint the next supreme leader.
Yass tried to get McSwain to quit right before the Republican primary, fearing a split vote that would anoint election denier Doug Mastriano as Josh Shapiro’s opponent, which, of course, was exactly what happened.
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she anointed my feet with ointment.
A Republican-dominated Supreme Court that just decided that the 1964 Civil Rights Act covers sexual orientation is about to anoint a feudal ecclesiocracy?
At some point, the Democrats will anoint a nominee who could unify the party against Mr. Trump.
Driving the plot is the question of which of his four scheming children ageing billionaire Roy (Brian Cox) will anoint as his successor.
Many indulged in ambiguity, transparency, uncertainty, convolution, and complacency, guided by an inhibition of mixed and missed information, to bathe the mind and body in tension, scrub with hypotheses, dry with potential, and anoint with burden.
St. Athanasius Parish is part of the Archdiocese of Chicago, which authorizes only a certain number of priests to anoint the sick.