anointer

[Eng. anoint; -er.] One who at the moment is engaged in anointing, or whose office is to anoint. 1. In a general sense. Life of Jesus (Transl. 1846), 590. and the sinner also an anointer." -Straме: 2. Church Hist . (See the example.) "At Watlington, in Oxfords hire, there was a sect called Anointers, from their anointing people before they admitted them into their communion."- 1 . Plot's Oxfords hire, ch. xxxviii. (Grey: Notes on Hudi bras , iii. 2.) an-oint'-ing, pr. par., a., & s. (ANOINT.] A. As present participle: In senses corresponding to those of the verb. B. As adjective . Used 1. Of the person applying the oil. the anointing woman. Life of Jesus (Transl. 1846), § 90. 2. Of the oil applied . IMG:content-0558.png:[blocks in formation] This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations. -Ibid . , xxx. 31. C. As substantive: 1. Lit. The act of anointing; the state of being anointed for ordinary or for sacred purposes. "Their bathings and a no in tings before their feasts, their perfumes and sweet odours in diverse kinds at their feasts."- Hake will : Apology , p. 390. for their anointing shall surely be an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations." Exod. xl. 15. 2. Fig .: The reception of spiritual benefit, even when no actual application of oil has taken place. "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man tench you but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him."-1 John ii. 27.