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unct

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To anoint, especially a monarch or other patriarchal leader.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

Examples

  • The King was uncted in the nick of time
  • 2001, Sheila Fischman tr., The Little Girl who was Too Fond of Matches: A Novel (original by Gaétan Soucy), →ISBN, page 11, I suppose the prospect of the sly devils in the village forcing my brother and me to kick the bucket without even uncting us extremely skewered me in every direction on the barbecue grill of those ancient queries concerning hell and its kind.

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To lubricate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: Ayurvedic medicine

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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History

Etymology

First appears in Middle English circa 1425, derived from Latin unctus (“anointed”) and related terms. Ayurvedic sense is one of several competing translations of Sanskrit snehana.