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cataplasm Med.|ˈkætəplæz(ə)m|
[a. F. cataplasme, ad. L. cataplasma, a. Gr. κατάπλασµα poultice, f. κατα-πλάσσειν to plaster over, apply a plaster.]
A poultice: formerly also a plaster.
1563T. Gale Antidot. i. i. 2 Cataplasmes made with the iuse of these herbes, and with floure. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 144. 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 90 A Cataplasme made of bread crums, milk, and a little Saffron. 1626Cockeram Cataplasme, a plaister, compounded of certaine oyntments to cure sores. c1720Gibson Farriers Disp. xiii. (1734) 261 Some make a distinction between Poultise and Cataplasm. 1866S. Thomson Dict. Dom. Med. 356 The well known mustard plaster or cataplasm.
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1622Fletcher Spanish Cur. iv. v, This Cataplasm of a well-cozened Lawyer. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 135 The emollient cataplasms of robbery and confiscation. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 462 Endeavour has been made to provide a cataplasm. |