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▪ I. † obˈturate, a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. obtūrāt-us, pa. pple. of obtūrāre: see next.] Stopped up; fig. impervious.
c1560Phylogamus in Skelton's Wks. (1843) I. p. cxvi, O poet rare and recent..Obtused and obturate, Obumbylate, obdurate. ▪ II. obturate, v.|əbˈtjʊəreɪt, ˈɒbtjʊ-| [f. ppl. stem of L. obtūrāre to stop up, in F. obturer.] trans. To stop up, close, obstruct. Hence obturated ppl. a.; obturating ppl. a. (spec. in Gunnery: see obturator 2 b).
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 683 In a..Boccia well obturated, that nothing may expire. 1736Amyand in Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 334 As oft as this..Pin..did not exactly obturate the Aperture. 1859Farrar Julian Home 260 His ears were so obturated with vanity. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 192 The canals traversing the thrombus..re-establish the circulation through the obturated vein. 1884S. V. Benet in Rep. Chief of Ordnance 18 (Cent.), Three forms of an obturating primer have been manufactured recently at the Frankfort arsenal. |