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1. Anointing: Anointing is the act of pouring oil over somebody as a religious ritual. The procedure started when ancient shepherds anointed the heads of sheep to prevent parasites entering their ears. [100%] 2023-12-18 [Religious terms]
2. Anointing: Anointing, also called Unction, is the pouring of oil on an item or body part, often the head. Sometimes animal fat or melted butter is used. The process is employed in several sacraments of the Orthodox and Catholic Christian churches ... [100%] 2023-02-04
3. Anointing: Anointing is the ritual act of pouring aromatic oil over a person's head or entire body. By extension, the term is also applied to related acts of sprinkling, dousing, or smearing a person or object with any perfumed oil ... (Ritual act of putting aromatic oil on a person) [100%] 2023-11-15 [Coronation] [Christian worship and liturgy]...
4. Anointing: Anointing, or greasing with oil, fat, or melted butter, a process employed ritually in all religions and among all races, civilized or savage, partly as a mode of ridding persons and things of dangerous influences and diseases, especially of the ... [100%] 2022-09-02
5. Anointing: Anointing, also called Unction, is the pouring of oil on an item or body part, often the head. Sometimes animal fat or melted butter is used. The process is employed in several sacraments of the Orthodox and Catholic Christian churches ... [100%] 2023-02-04
6. Anointing: ANOINTING a-noint'-ing: A distinction was made by the ancient Hebrews between anointing with oil in private use, as in making one's toilet (cukh), and anointing as a religious rite (mashach). 1. Ordinary Use: (1) As regards its ... [100%] 1915-01-01
7. Anointing: Biblical Data: Two words are employed in the Old Testament for , and. The former designates the private use of unguents in making one's toilet, the latter their use as a religious rite. As a means of soothing the skin ... (Jewish encyclopedia 1906) [100%] 1906-01-01 [Jewish encyclopedia 1906]
8. Oil, Anointing: OIL, ANOINTING (shemen hamishchah): This holy oil, the composition of which is described in Exodus 30:22-33, was designed for use in the anointing of the tabernacle, its furniture and vessels, the altar and laver, and the priest, that ... [70%] 1915-01-01
9. Anointing brush: An anointing brush is a liturgical brush used in the Byzantine Rite to administer one of the sacred oils: chrism, oil of catechumens, or oil of the sick. In Post-Soviet Russia the anointing brush is used by the self ... [70%] 2024-09-03 [Byzantine Rite] [Christian worship and liturgy]...
10. Anointing of Jesus: The anointings of Jesus’s head or feet are events recorded in the four gospels. The account in Matthew 26, Mark 14, and John 12 takes place on the Holy Wednesday of Holy Week at the house of Simon the ... (Religion) [57%] 2023-11-07 [Christian messianism]
11. Anointing of the Sick: The Anointing of the Sick, also known as "Extreme Unction" or "Healing," is a sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church, among others, in which oil is applied to the body of a seriously ill person by a priest while certain ... [50%] 2023-02-28 [Catholic Church Sacraments] [Catholic Church]...
12. Anointing of the sick: Anointing of the sick, known also by other names such as unction, is a form of religious anointing or "unction" (an older term with the same meaning) for the benefit of a sick person. It is practiced by many Christian ... (Religious anointing/sacrament) [50%] 2023-11-26 [Christian terminology] [Supernatural healing]...
13. Anointing of the Sick in the Catholic Church: In the Catholic Church, the anointing of the sick, also known as Extreme Unction, is a Catholic sacrament that is administered to a Catholic "who, having reached the age of reason, begins to be in danger due to sickness or ... (One of the sacraments in the Catholic Church) [35%] 2024-01-08 [Sacraments of the Catholic Church] [Anointing of the Sick (Catholic Church)]...
14. Second anointing: In the Latter Day Saint movement the second anointing is the pinnacle ordinance of the temple and an extension of the endowment ceremony. Founder Joseph Smith taught that the function of the ordinance was to ensure salvation, guarantee exaltation, and ... (Rare Latter-day Saint ordinance) [70%] 2024-09-02 [1843 establishments in Illinois] [1843 in Christianity]...
15. Washing and anointing: Washing and anointing (also called the initiatory) is a ritual purification ordinance similar to chrismation that is part of the temple endowment ceremony practiced by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and Mormon fundamentalists. In ... (Religion) [57%] 2023-12-03 [Ritual purification]
16. Holy anointing oil: The holy anointing oil (Biblical Hebrew: שמן המשחה‎, romanized: shemen ha-mishchah, lit. 'oil of anointing') formed an integral part of the ordination of the priesthood and the High Priest as well as in the consecration of the articles of the Tabernacle ... (Chemistry) [57%] 2023-12-19 [Christian terminology] [Oils]...
17. Holy anointing oil: The holy anointing oil (Biblical Hebrew: שמן המשחה, romanized: shemen ha-mishchah, lit. 'oil of anointing') formed an integral part of the ordination of the priesthood and the High Priest as well as in the consecration of the articles of the Tabernacle ... (Oil used to sanctify, to set the anointed person or object apart) [57%] 2024-09-02 [Ceremonial magic] [Christian terminology]...
18. Self-anointing in animals: Self-anointing in animals, sometimes called anointing or anting, is a behaviour whereby a non-human animal smears odoriferous substances over themselves. These substances are often the secretions, parts, or entire bodies of other animals or plants. (A behaviour whereby a non-human animal smears odoriferous substances over themselves) [50%] 2024-09-28 [Animal communication] [Ethology]...