As the priest makes the unctions [we have followed from point to point the ritual which we have copied], he pronounces the words which correspond to them.
These Unctions were continued from four or five to ten or twelve Nights, according to the Violence and Continuance of the Disorder.
Which unctions are performed on things that have not been anointed, to show greater reverence to them and to bestow more grace upon them.
And, according to Augustine, the first three unctions have been introduced rather by use than by any written authority.
Of the unctions of the church and altar we have spoken under their own heads.
And of these unctions we have spoken and shall again speak in their right places.
Being such subtle dialecticians, perchance they have done this in order to relate it to the first unction of baptism and the two succeeding unctions of confirmation and ordination.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unctions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
