unctĭo

I. a besmearing. anointing.

I. Lit.: sudatoriae, Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 73: cottidiana, Col. 12, 53, 3. philosophorum omnes unctionis causā relinquunt, i. e. to go and anoint themselves for wrestling in the palæstra, Cic. de Or. 2, 5, 21; Quint. 11, 3, 19.—

II. Transf., an ointment, unguent: ita ut unctio inarescat, Plin. 28, 11, 47, § 171.