Embrocate (Verb)
Meaning
Administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing.
Classification
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care.
Examples
- The priest was instructed to embrocate the altar with sacred oil before the ritual began.
- He was tasked with embrocating the relics with a mixture of perfume and olive oil.
- In some traditional rituals, a holy man would embrocate the door handles to ward off evil spirits.
- She took the opportunity to embrocate her deceased loved one's photograph with a few drops of sandalwood oil.
- During baptismal ceremonies, the infant's body may be embrocated with holy oil as a symbol of redemption.