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oint

/ɔɪnt/

oint verb: to anoint.

Verb

oint (third-person singular simple present oints, present participle ointing, simple past and past participle ointed)

  1. (archaic, poetic) To anoint.
    • They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
    • to make his excuse more likely, he caused his legges to be ointed and swathed, and lively counterfeted the behaviour and countenance of a goutie man.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 25, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Forms of oint

third-person singular presentoints
present participleointing
past participleointed
pastointed

Origin of oint

From Middle English ointen, from Anglo-Norman oint or Old French oint, past participle of oindre, from Latin unguere.

Words that rhyme with oint

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about oint

What does oint mean?
Oint means to anoint.
What part of speech is oint?
Oint is a verb.
How do you pronounce oint?
Oint is pronounced /ɔɪnt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of oint?
The past tense of oint is ointed.

Words near oint in the dictionary

  1. oinokhoes
  2. oinology
  3. oinomancy
  4. oinomania
  5. oinomel
  6. oint
  7. ointed
  8. ointing
  9. ointment
  10. ointmentlike
  11. ointments

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