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inunctions

inunctions is the plural of inunction.

Meaning of inunction

Noun

inunction (countable and uncountable, plural inunctions)

  1. 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.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Questions about inunctions

What is inunctions the plural of?
Inunctions is the plural of inunction.

Words near inunctions in the dictionary

  1. inumimi
  2. inunct
  3. inuncted
  4. inuncting
  5. inunction
  6. inunctions
  7. inuncts
  8. inundable
  9. inundant
  10. inundatable
  11. inundatal

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