Crossword-Solution: ANOINTINGS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

They have received their washings and anointings in the Temple of God on earth." Young's ambition was not to be satisfied until his name was connected with some doctrine peculiarly his own.

Thus, by the secret hand of Thy medicining was my swelling abated, and the troubled and bedimmed eyesight of my mind, by the smarting anointings of healthful sorrows, was from day to day healed.

Meanwhile the choir chants:-- "The holy Bishop Remi, having received from Heaven this precious balm, sanctified the illustrious race of the French in the baptismal waters and enriched them with the gift of the Holy Spirit." Then the two attendant cardinals undo the openings made in the garments of the King for the anointings, and escort His Majesty to the altar.

The Archbishop then proceeds to the seven anointings: on the crown of the head, on the breast, between the shoulders, on the right shoulder, on the left shoulder, in the bend of the right arm, in the bend of the left arm, making the sign of the cross at each, and repeating seven times: ungo te in regem de oleo sanctificato, in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti.

This structure, solemnly dedicated to their God, they entered, and there received their anointings and their blessings; then they abandoned it to the desecration and self-condemning outrages of their foes.