Anointing
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title:
Anointing
text:
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, milk, butter, or other fat. Scented oils are used as perfumes and sharing them is an act of hospitality. Their use to introduce a divine influence or presence is recorded from the earliest times; anointing was thus used as a form of medicine, thought to rid persons and things o
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Ritual act of putting aromatic oil on a person
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anointing
date created:
2002-08-07T07:39:27Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T00:04:53Z
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