Particulars of the anointment have already been given in connection with the coronation of Napoleon.
The first great act of David after his second anointment was to transfer his capital from Hebron to Jerusalem, then a strong fortress in the hands of the Jebusites.
January, 1594, when he had demanded of him, by the embassy extraordinary of the Duke of Nevers, confirmation of the absolution granted him by the French bishops after his conversation at St. Denis and his anointment at Chartres.
But one other thing, more important than theanointment at Chartres, was wanting.
These difficulties thus removed, the anointmentof Henry IV.
If it continue, I am of opinion that you should break off this anointment and coronation, and expedition and war; if you please to give me orders, it shall soon be done.
At the end of the ninth century, a bishop could gravely state, and a nation unquestionably accept his statement, that a dove had flown down from heaven bearing a vial of holy oil for the anointment of its kings.
Again I make anointment of hair and cut out dinner.
Tonight after we reach Compound, I cut out dinner and make anointment of hair, also stir my stumps to compose Poem.
We have ignored and thrown aside the priestly fable of an anointment by a man conferring an hereditary right to rule his brother man, by any family.
The anointmentof the body with oils was one of the characteristics of a Roman bath.
A particular habit of body or tendency to certain complaints, sometimes required the order to be reversed and the anointment to take place before bathing.
