Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
anoint
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
anoint
verb
(a-noint)
administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Synonyms:
anele
,
embrocate
,
inunct
,
oil
,
anoint
verb
(a-noint)
choose by or as if by divine intervention
Examples:
She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group.
Words Related to
anoint
!
oil
,
anele
,
coronate
,
consecrate
,
promote
,
embrocate
,
crucify
,
baptize
,
sanctify
,
bless
,
deify
,
ordain
,
exalt
,
enthrone
,
baptise
,
proclaim
,
genuflect
,
disanoint
,
nominate
,
usurp
,
appoint
,
dethrone
,
supplant
,
declare
,
designate
,
arrogate
,
reincarnate
,
immolate
,
venerate
,
ascend
,
bestow
,
sanctifyingly
,
become
,
vilify
,
iatraliptic
,
indict
,
canonize
,
handpick
,
canonise
,
prognosticate
,
abdicate
,
embrace
,
extreme unction
,
convene
,
ingratiate
,
bury
,
covet
,
deride
,
depose
,
christen
,
upstage
,
insinuate
,
unseat
,
assert
,
lionise
,
unsanctify
,
cede
,
replace
,
shoo
,
endorse
,
regarded
,
deem
,
sacrate
,
portray
,
pounce
,
chasten
,
relegate
,
disconsecrate
,
displace
,
steamroll
,
embarrass
,
decide
,
blackball
,
psychoanalyze
,
coddle
,
smother
,
coalesce
,
criticize
,
summon
,
elect
,
kowtow
,
divinize
,
demote
,
prophetize
,
denigrate
,
bestride
,
crowning
,
sacrificator
,
decamp
,
reassert
,
immortalize
,
bewitch
,
foist
,
mythologize
,
misconsecrate
,
invoke
,
revere
,
demonize
,
entrust
,
vaticinator
,
anoint
Examples by Brain Bank Users