anoint

anoint (someone/oneself) with

To touch someone or oneself with a liquid (such as oil or water). The phrase often retains its religious connotations. They will anoint my baby with chrism during her baptism today. To alleviate the inflammation in my leg, I have to anoint myself with this special cream every day.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

anoint someone with something

to pour or rub oil on a person's head as an honor or blessing; to put a liquid onto oneself. (Mostly in biblical references.) They anointed the king with oil and praised him greatly. He anointed himself with a menthol rub that was meant to help his cold symptoms.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • anoint (someone/oneself) with
  • anoint with
  • go to war
  • go to war (over someone or something)
  • for (one's) (own) sake
  • for sake
  • keep in sight
  • keep sight of
  • keep sight of (someone or something)
  • keep sight of somebody/something
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In the UK you can only become a king or queen through birth or by marriage, unlike in Cameroon, where you can be anointed by way of a "sacred" ceremony.
Prophets were anointed with olive oil, and they in turn anointed kings.
The submission was made before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw during arguments on three public interest litigations challenging the November 22 ceremony where Bukhari plans to anoint his son as Naib Imam who will be the next chief cleric.
The congregation comes forward and creates a chain of hands upon the person that is being anointed.
anoint [...] verb to put oil or water on someone's head or body during a religious ceremony: [Vn] Accordingly they petitioned the Pope to anoint Philip.
One intercessor saw in his own vision, that when I anointed the river with oil, the serpent's necks were surrounded with the oil and all the three heads fell down and the serpent was dead.
And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them" (Mark 6:13).
15, 16); they prepare for his death, they anoint with oil (Ch.
Thus in 7.22.2 the order and explanation is; anointing with oil as participation in the Spirit, water baptism symbolising death, then anointing with ointment ([GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) explained as a seal of the covenants.(15) Then there is the passage in 3.16, evidently based on the Didascalia Apostolorum,(16) which has diaconal anointing followed by episcopal anointing: in the episcopal laying on of hands the Bishop is to anoint the head only, after the OT priestly/kingly pattern, to make the initiates Christians.(17) The Bishop is to anoint after that type the heads of the candidates with the holy oil as a type of spiritual baptism.
At the end of his letter, he wrote: 'Any one of you who is ill should send for the elders of the church, and they must anoint the sick person with oil in the name of the Lord and pray over him.
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I found cotton balls in the medicine cabinet and olive oil in the cupboard, and proceeded to anoint Sandy.
It is effective and that's the reason why the-whoever the President would anoint, would certainly have an advantage.
Does the anointing woman anoint Jesus as the Messiah?