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unguere, ungere [CL] 1 to smear with substance, esp. grease, oil, ointment, or sim.; b (transf. or fig.). vulnus ‥ unguento ‥ ~ere Gildas EB 108; quam [axungiam] ‥ fratribus ‥ ad ~uendas caligas praebere solebat Bede CuthbP 20; quia non opporteret vos nisi ~ere tantum ocreas vestras et possetis a patruo vestro quicquid velletis optinere Gir. SD 94; 1256 Robertus molendinarius, volens ~ere rotam cujusdam molendini, oppressus fuit sub eadem rota AssizeR Northumb 116; 1270 in cepo et huncto ad coll’ boum hunguend’ MinAc 768/5 m. 7; 1295 in stipendio unius ~uentis navem KR Ac 5/7 m. 1; 1319 in cepo et uncto emptis pro carectis ~end’ MinAc 992/10 m. 2; 1383 quod teneant hirsillum cum bidentibus suis et quod ~uent eos tociens quociens indigent Hal. Durh. 179; 1408 in oleo empto pro les belowes ~uendo viij d. Ac. Forge Durh. 519.  b [dolus] in fine fit impius hostis, / mortificat, dampnat, lucri quos unguit odore D. Bec. 1512; et quos alta prius stimulabat vox reboantis, / postera blandicies unget in aure levis Gower VC IV 758. 2 to anoint (esp. w. holy oil, in rite or as symbol, esp. at initiation, also in transf. or fig. context); b (the sick in danger of death, esp. as considered as sacrament); c (w. in & acc.). d (pr. ppl. as adj., in quot. fig.). e (p. ppl. as adj.) anointed, (also as sb.) anointed one. secundum Romanam ecclesiam mos est monachos vel homines religiosos defunctos aecclesiam portare, et cum crisma ~uere pectora eorum Theod. Pen. II 5. 1; unxit Jesum Deus Spiritu Sancto [Act. x 38] Bede Hom. I 17. 95D; impleatur visio et prophetia, et ~uatur sanctus sanctorum [cf. Dan. ix 24] Id. TR 9; uncxit Spiritus Sanctus per suos flatus manus omnium sacerdotum ‥ ~uatur et consecratur caput tuum caelesti benedictione in ordine pontificali Egb. Pont. 3; oleum ‥ quo capita regum et pontificum ~untur Gir. GE I 4; postes domorum ~ebant ingredientes Alb. Lond. DG 4. 3; Christus Dei electus, Spiritu Sancto in omni plenitudine unctus J. Ford Serm. 18. 6; ~ere enim pueros et confirmare ‥ est opus facile Gascoigne Loci 41.  b cum oleo infirmorum debetis ~ere infirmos Ælf. Ep. 3. 9; confessione solutus, oleo unctus, divina communione refectus, fine urgente suppliciter orat astantes septem psalmos decantare penitentiales Gosc. V. Iv. 87B.  c devotos Deo populos regentes super hanc hereditatem Domini oleo gratiae caelestis ~amur in principem Bede Sam. 564C; unxit Samuel David in regem et prophetam Egb. Pont. 3; filius [Lotharii] confirmavit Sergium papam et unctus est ab eo in regem Longobardorum R. Niger Chr. I 73; s1274 Edwardus ‥ coronatus est et unctus in regem Anglie Ann. Exon. f. 14v; ~ebatur in pastorem et pontificem die illa V. Edm. Rich P 1825A.  d nomen sancte Edithe ~entissimum hauserat Gosc. Edith 294.  e s1141 cum ‥ sit in medio vestrum dominus vester, unctus domini, cui fidem devovistis, votum Deo persolvite [R. Howd. I 202: dominus vester, unctus domini, cui fidem devovistis] H. Hunt. HA VIII 17; [Christus] Messias Hebraice dicitur ‥ nam ‘messias’ dicitur ‘unctus’ Bart. Angl. I 21; Saul ‥ erat unctus Domini Ockham Pol. I 161. 3 (p. ppl. as cult name, title, or epithet of Juno), or f. l. [Juno] dicitur Uncta [Alb. Lond. DG 4. 3: Unxia] ab ungendo Wals. AD 10. 4 (p. ppl. as adj.) covered in or saturated with fat, grease, or oil, oily, greasy (in quot. typifying rich food), unctuous. numquam ‥ unctioribus cibis corpus curaverit, sed semper sagimini, semper carnibus preterquam piscium valefecerit W. Malm. Wulfst. III 2.

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