noint, 'noint
aphetic forms of anoint v.
| 13.. Cursor M. 7286 (Gött.), He was..þe first þat noyntid man to king. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 23 That man scholde be sleyne and the body of Faustina..be noyntede with the bloode of hym. 1495 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xii. xxxix. (W. de W.) 436 The blode of a reremouse noynted [Bodl. MS. i-smered] vpon the lyddes suffreth not the heere to growe agayn. 1508 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. li. Wks. (1876) 109 The forheed of the chylde is noynted with holy creme. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 144 The vlcerous places must be nointed with Vineger. 1611 Chapman May Day Plays 1873 II. 339 One that noints his nose with clowted creame. 1647 R. Stapylton Juvenal 77 The oyle..which those country-men nointed with, when they bathed. 1689 N. Lee Princess Cleve iii. i, They are..suspected for Witches, mine noints her self ev'ry Night. |
| 1821 Scott Kenilw. vii, He would..fling him a handful of silver groats,..to 'noint the sore withal. 1822 Shelley Faust ii. 182 We are washed, we are 'nointed, stark naked are we. |
Hence
ˈnointed ppl. a. (see
quot. 1855 and
cf. nineted a.);
ˈnointer, one who anoints;
ˈnointing vbl. n.;
ˈnointment, ointment.
| 13.. Cursor M. 9338 (Gött.), Quen he þat haliest es comen, ȝour noynting sal fra ȝou be nomen. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) VI. 159 He was confermede by hym by the noyntynge of holy creame. c 1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 640 Her xal mary..a-noynt hym with a precyus noy[n]ttment. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Circunlitio,..noyntyng. 1647 R. Stapylton Juvenal 89 Their Tyrian cassocks, nointings for the field, Who knowes not, sees not? Ibid. 36 A rhetorician, a grammarian, A painter, nointer, augur, geometrician. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘A nointed youth’, a young man apparently destined to, or determined upon, evil courses. |