English Explanatory Dictionary

aroint

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
  2. to dispel; to send away.

Pronunciation

/əˈɹɔɪnt/

Word forms

aroint aroints arointing arointed

Etymology

Uncertain, and subject to various attempts to connect it to multiple Germanic and Romance etymons; first attested in the First Folio, and sometimes posited to be an error for anoint, referring to a witch’s supposed flight-facilitating ointment, and thus being a commandment for her to anele herself and fly away; also said to be taken from the phrase rowan tree, thought to dispel witches.

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