an6int, anoynte, annoynte

t. [Fr. oindre, pa. par. oint In Sp. & Port. ungir, untar; Ital. ugnere. From Lat. ungo or unguo.] L Literally : 1. To pour oil upon. This may be(1.) For purposes not specially sacred. "But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face."- Matt . vi. 17. (2.) For sacred purposes , and specially for con sec ration of a person, place , or thing . Under the Old Testament economy this was done in the case (a) Of Jewish priests. "Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his [Aaron's) head, and anoint him."- Exod . xxix. 7. (b) Of Jewish and other kings. "Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel."1 Sam. xv. 1. and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria." -1 Kings xix. 15. (c) Of Jewish prophets. and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy roo in. "-1 Kings xix. 16. (d) of the tabernacle and its utensils. (For the anointing of the tabernacle, see Exod. xl. 9; for that of the altar of burnt-offering, see ver. 10; and for that of the laver and its foot, see verse 11.) 2. To smear with some more or le viscous substance, which need not be oil. (1.) For purposes not specially sacred. he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay." John ix. 6. " Anointed let me be with deadly venom; And die, ere men can say God save the Queen!" Shakesp.: Richard III ., iv. L. *(2.) For sacred purposes . "That hade ben ble ed bifore wyth bischopes hondes, and wyth beaten blod busily anoynted."-Alliterative Poems ; Cleanne (ed. Morris), 1,445-6. II. Figuratively: 1. Very seriously: (1.) To set solemnly apart to sacred office, even when oil was not actually poured upon the head. thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed."- Acta iv. 27. (2.) To adopt the means of obtaining spiritual discernment. and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest see."- Rev. iii. 18. *2. Jocosely: To give a good beating to. "Then thay put hym hout, the kyng away fly, Which so well was anoynted indede, That no sleue ne pane had he hole of brede." The Romans of Partenay (ed. Skeat), 5,652-4. an-oint-ěd, *an-oy'nt-ěd, * an-noy'ntěd, pa. par., a., & 8. [ANOINT.] A. & B. As past participle and adjective: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. "Thou [Tyre] art the anointed cherub Ezek . xxviii. 14. C. As substantive: I. An anointed king. Used1. Literally: ." (a) Of any Jewish king [ANOINT, I. 1, (2), (6)]; the customary phrase being the anointed of the Lord," or "the Lord's anointed." "The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits" -Lam . iv. 20. "And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord's anointed 1"-2 Sam . i. 14. (b) Of an English or other sovereign. In this sense the term is applied with latent sarcasm to those despotic rulers who have largely exercised what has been termed "the right divine of kings to govern wrong." "Still harder was the lot of those Protestant clergymen who continued to cling, with desperate fidelity. to the cause of the Lord's anointed ."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., chap. xii. 2. Figuratively: (a) Cyrus, as executing the Divine commi ions of conquering Babylon and releasing the Jews from captivity. "Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him."- Isa . xlv. 1. (b) Christ, the Me iah, the former appellation being from Greek, and the latter from Hebrew; both signifying Anointed. (John i. 41.) 227 "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm."-1 Chron. xvi, 22; Ps. cv. 15.