In antiquity, someone who washed, anointed, and otherwise prepared cadavers for embalming or burning on the funeral pile.
"What is delivered by Herodotus concerning the Aegyptian Pollinctors, or such as anointed the dead."
Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646).
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Next time someone shows up at my front door with a clipboard I'll ask them "hey, are you a pollinctor?" If they answer yes - I think I'll be making myself scarce...
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