embrocate

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin embrocatus, past participle of Late Latin embrocare, from embrocha, from Ancient Greek ἐμβροχή (embrokhḗ, “lotion, fomentation”).

Verb

embrocate (third-person singular simple present embrocates, present participle embrocating, simple past and past participle embrocated)

  1. (medicine, transitive) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “embrocate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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