aˈneled, ppl. a.
[f. anele v. + -ed.]
a. Anointed; b. spec. Having received extreme unction.
| 1557 North Diall of Princes (1568) 12 a, The goodlye Faustina in 4 daies dyed..of a burnynge feuer, and so annealed was caried to Rome. 1558 Bp. Watson 7 Sacr. xxx. 191 Christ inwardly worketh the inuisible grace..in the soule of the party aneyled. [1602 Shakes. Ham. i. v. 77 Vnhouzzled, disappointed, vnnaneld.] |