单词 | embrocate |
释义 | embrocatev. Medicine. transitive. To bathe or foment (a part of the body) with liquid, in order to remove or mitigate disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments using water > treat hydropathically [verb (transitive)] > bathe, sprinkle, or foment beathc1000 foment?a1425 stupe1525 fomentate1559 embroche1575 pump1598 embrocate1628 irrigate1876 1628 J. Woodall Viaticum 4 In Wounds of Gun-shott..Embrocate often. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick v. i. 125 The Tongue may be embrochated with Oxymel. 1689 J. Moyle Abstr. Sea Chyrurg. ii. vi. 49 When you have imbrocated all about with Oyl of Roses. 1724 J. Douglas in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 85 I embrocated all the Abdomen..with warm Ol. Chamæmel. 1815 Ld. Byron Let. 12 June (1975) IV. 297 He has been embrocated. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxv. 252. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1628 |
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