anointing
- n the act of applying oil or an oily liquid
- v choose by or as if by divine intervention
- v administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
- As the Progressives at the convention moved toward the moment of anointing Roosevelt as their first presidential candidate, his lieutenants were scrambling to line up a Vice .
- Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction.
- Others say Duterte has achieved his results at a grim price, disregarding due process and anointing himself legislator, judge, juryand possibly executionerall at once.