anoil
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French enoilier.
Verb edit
anoil (third-person singular simple present anoils, present participle anoiling, simple past and past participle anoiled)
- (obsolete) To anoint with oil.
- 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
- Children were also christened, and men houseled and anoiled
References edit
- “anoil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.