inunction

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈʌŋkʃən/

Definition of inunction

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The anointing or rubbing in of oil or balm.
    “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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Etymology

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

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