inunction

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Etymology

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From Latin inunctio, from inunctus, past participle of inungo (anoint), from in- + ungo (anoint), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (anoint).

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Noun

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inunction (countable and uncountable, plural inunctions)

  1. The anointing or rubbing in of oil or balm.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 3, subsection i:
      Besides these fomentations, irrigations, inunctions, odoraments, prescribed for the head, there must be the like used for the liver, spleen, stomach, hyperchondries, etc.
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