unctĭo, ōnis, f. [ungo], 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.