Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who anoints.

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  • noun One who anoints.

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  • noun One who anoints.

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  • noun one who anoints as a religious ceremony

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Examples

  • GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, who has gained national prominence as an anointer of tea party candidates, is expected to easily defeat his surprise opponent, Alvin Greene, who won the Democratic nomination without campaigning and despite his odd behavior and lack of experience.

    South Carolina election results 2010: Jim Demint wins another Senate term washingtonpost.com 2010

  • In the video below, Jacobs discusses the Wall Street ceremony but also talks about the same "Seven Mountain mandate" elaborated on by Sarah Palin anointer Thomas Muthee on October 16, 2005.

    Bruce Wilson: Palin's Movement Urges 'Godly' To 'Plunder' Wealth of The 'Godless' 2008

  • Given the gender and reputation however ill-deserved of the anointer, the ceremony is hardly typical of Judaic practice.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • For though a baptizer and an anointer bestow authority—in much the same way as the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred the regal status on Queen Elizabeth II in 1953—they themselves must have had authority to do so.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • For though a baptizer and an anointer bestow authority—in much the same way as the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred the regal status on Queen Elizabeth II in 1953—they themselves must have had authority to do so.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Significantly, Jesus himself links not only the act of the anointing but also the person of the anointer with his forthcoming burial, as, for example, in Mark 14:8: ‘She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.’

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Significantly, Jesus himself links not only the act of the anointing but also the person of the anointer with his forthcoming burial, as, for example, in Mark 14:8: ‘She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.’

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Given the gender and reputation however ill-deserved of the anointer, the ceremony is hardly typical of Judaic practice.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Pope Sixtus, an anointer of those that have the pox.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Pope Sixtus, an anointer of those that have the pox.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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