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Nave Topical Bible
• Unction
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Unction
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Unction
• Extreme Unction
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Unction
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Preaching: Need of Prayer and Unction
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Unction
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Unction
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Unction
King James Dictionary
• Unction
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Unction
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Unction, Extreme
• Extreme Unction
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Unction
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Unction
Webster Dictionary
• Unction
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Unction
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Unction
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Extreme Unction
• Unction
• Unction in Preaching
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Extreme Unction
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Extreme Unction
Lexicons
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UNC'TION, n. L. unctio, from ungo, to anoint.

1. The act of anointing.

2. Unguent ointment. Unusual.

3. The act of anointing medically as mercurial unction.

4. Any thing softening or lenitive.

5. That which excites piety and devotion.

6. Richness of gracious affections.

7. Divine or sanctifying grace. 1 John 1 .

Extreme unction, the rite of anointing in the last hours or the application of sacred oil to the parts where the five senses reside.