oyntment

English

Noun

oyntment (countable and uncountable, plural oyntments)

1. Obsolete form of ointment.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John xij:[3], folio cxxxix, recto:

     Then toke Mary a pounde off oyntment called nardus / perfecte and precious / and anoynted Jeſus fete / and wept his fete with her heer / and all the houſſe ſmelled off the ſavre off the oyntment.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 1:6, columns 1–2:

     From the ſole of the foote, euen vnto the head, there is no ſoundneſſe in it; but wounds, and bruiſes, and putrifying ſores: they haue not beene cloſed, neither bound vp, neither mollified with oyntment.

   • 1693, Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament:

     For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.