Unction vs Unct - What's the difference?
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a salve or ointment
* Dryden
a religious or ceremonial anointing
* Milton
a balm or something that soothes
a smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess
divine or sanctifying grace
(archaic) To anoint, especially a monarch or other patriarchal leader.
* 1552 , ed. Catholic Church, John Hamilton, Thomas Graves Law, The Catechism of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1552 , published 1884, page 229
* 1769 , ,
* 2001 , Sheila Fischman tr., The Little Girl who was Too Fond of Matches: A Novel
(Ayurvedic medicine) To lubricate.
* {{quote-book, 2008, Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, page=197
, passage=This is also an uncting procedure in which oil is dropped into the nose and expelled through the mouth.}}
Unction is a related term of unct.
As a noun unction
is a salve or ointment.As a verb unct is
(archaic) to anoint, especially a monarch or other patriarchal leader.unction
English
Noun
(en noun)- The king himself the sacred unction made.
- To be heir, and to be king / By sacred unction , thy deserved right.
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Verb
(en verb)- The King was uncted in the nick of time
The Rowley Poems, "Englysh Metamorphosis",
- Tyll tyred with battles, for to ceese the fraie, / Theie uncted Brutus kynge, and gave the Trojanns swaie.
(original by [[w:Gaétan Soucy, Gaétan Soucy]), ISBN 1559705884, page 11,
- I suppose the prospect of the sly devils in the village forcing my brother and me to kick the bucket without even uncting us extremely skewered me in every direction on the barbecue grill of those ancient queries concerning hell and its kind.
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