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Until Saturday, she seemed content to have become an anointer rather than the anointed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2015

Ed Sullivan, whose Sunday night variety show was regarded as an anointer of stars, had the sisters on about a dozen times.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2014

Pope Sixtus, an anointer of those that have the pox.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Aldred, Wulstan's former Bishop, now Archbishop of York, was the anointer of both Harold and William the Conqueror.

From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Yonge, Charlotte Mary