Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to unct
Participle: uncted
Gerund: uncting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | unct |
| you | unct |
| he;she;it | uncts |
| we | unct |
| you | unct |
| they | unct |
Perfect
| I | have uncted |
| you | have uncted |
| he;she;it | has uncted |
| we | have uncted |
| you | have uncted |
| they | have uncted |
Past
| I | uncted |
| you | uncted |
| he;she;it | uncted |
| we | uncted |
| you | uncted |
| they | uncted |
Pluperfect
| I | had uncted |
| you | had uncted |
| he;she;it | had uncted |
| we | had uncted |
| you | had uncted |
| they | had uncted |
Future
| I | will unct |
| you | will unct |
| he;she;it | will unct |
| we | will unct |
| you | will unct |
| they | will unct |
Future Perfect
| I | will have uncted |
| you | will have uncted |
| he;she;it | will have uncted |
| we | will have uncted |
| you | will have uncted |
| they | will have uncted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | unct |
| you | unct |
| he;she;it | unct |
| we | unct |
| you | unct |
| they | unct |
Perfect
| I | have uncted |
| you | have uncted |
| he;she;it | have uncted |
| we | have uncted |
| you | have uncted |
| they | have uncted |
Imperfect
| I | uncted |
| you | uncted |
| he;she;it | uncted |
| we | uncted |
| you | uncted |
| they | uncted |
Pluperfect
| I | had uncted |
| you | had uncted |
| he;she;it | had uncted |
| we | had uncted |
| you | had uncted |
| they | had uncted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would unct |
| you | would unct |
| he;she;it | would unct |
| we | would unct |
| you | would unct |
| they | would unct |
Perfect
| I | would have uncted |
| you | would have uncted |
| he;she;it | would have uncted |
| we | would have uncted |
| you | would have uncted |
| they | would have uncted |
Imperative
| you | unct |
| we | Let's unct |
| you | unct |
Verbs conjugated like 'unct'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'unct'
act,
ant,
bunch,
bunco,
bunt,
duct,
dunt,
enact,
ent,
gunch,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
First appears in Middle English circa 1425, derived from Latin unctus (“anointed”) and related terms. Ayurvedic sense is one of several competing translations of Sanskrit snehana.
Sample Sentences
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The King was uncted in the nick of time
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[…] and lat thame pray ouir him and unct him with oyle in the name of our Lord, […] [1552, ed. Catholic Church, John Hamilton, Thomas Graves Law, The Catechism of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1552, published 1884, page 229]
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Tyll tyred with battles, for to ceese the fraie, / Theie uncted Brutus kynge, and gave the Trojanns swaie. [1769, Thomas Chatterton, “The Rowley Poems”, in Englysh Metamorphosis:]
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2001, Sheila Fischman tr., The Little Girl who was Too Fond of Matches: A Novel (original by Gaétan Soucy), →ISBN, page 11,
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I suppose the prospect of the sly devils in the village forcing my brother and me to kick the bucket without even uncting us extremely skewered me in every direction on the barbecue grill of those ancient queries concerning hell and its kind.
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This is also an uncting procedure in which oil is dropped into the nose and expelled through the mouth. [2008, Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 197:]