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ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction. To be heir, and to be king By sacred unction, thy deserved right. Milton.

The act of joining; the thing joined or added.

ricking; stimulation. [Obs.] That acid piecering spirit which, with such activity and compunction, invadeth the brains and nostrils. Sir T. Browne.

Without compunction.

iation; league. He will unite the white rose and the red: Smille heaven upon his fair conjunction. Shak. Man can effect no great matter by his personal strength but as he acts in society and conjunction with others. South.

Relating to a conjunction.

Death. [Obs.] After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.

The act of disjoining; disunion; separation; a parting; as, the disjunction of soul and body.

The act of expunging or erasing; the condition of being expunged. Milton.

The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance. "In the function of his public calling." Swift.

To execute or perform a function; to transact one's regular or appointed business.

Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.

To assign to some function or office. [R.]

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity. The organ is said to be functionally disordered. Lawrence.

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.

precept; a direction. For still they knew,and ought to have still remembered, The high injunction,not to taste that fruit. Milton. Necessary as the injunctions of lawful authority. South.

A mutual joining. [R.]

The insertion of points between word or sentences; punctuation.

The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.