UNCTION
\ʌnktɪˈɒn], \ʌnktɪˈɒn], \ʌ_n_k_t_ɪ__ˈɒ_n]\
Definitions of UNCTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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An unguent.
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The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.
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That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive.
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Divine or sanctifying grace.
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That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor.
By Oddity Software
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An unguent.
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The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.
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That which is used for anointing; an unguent; an ointment; hence, anything soothing or lenitive.
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Divine or sanctifying grace.
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That quality in language, address, or the like, which excites emotion; especially, strong devotion; religious fervor and tenderness; sometimes, a simulated, factitious, or unnatural fervor.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of anointing in sign of consecration; an ointment; anything soothing; the gift of using words so as to arouse emotion.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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An anointing: that which is used for anointing: ointment: that quality in language which raises emotion or devotion: warmth of address: divine or sanctifying grace.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of anointing symbolically for consecration, or medically for healing; unguent; ointment; anything soothing or lenitive; warmth of address; Divine or sanctifying grace. Extreme unction. See Extreme.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A rubbing or smearing with fat or fatty matter; anything softening or laxative; in preaching, that mode of address which thrills or soothes, or inspires with feelings of devotion; divine or sanctifying grace; extreme unction, in the R. Cath. Ch., the sacrament or rite of anointing with consecrated oil, administered to persons at the point of death.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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