EMBROCATE Definition & Meaning

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embrocate

[ em-broh-keyt, -bruh- ]

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verb (used with object)

embrocated, embrocating.

to moisten and rub with a liniment or lotion.

embrocate

/ ˈɛ��əʊˌ��ɪ�� /

verb

tr to apply a liniment or lotion to (a part of the body)

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of embrocate¹

1605–15; < Medieval Latin �𳾲��ǳ��ٳܲ� (past participle of �𳾲��ǳ�� ), equivalent to Late Latin embroch ( a ) (< Greek �𳾲��ǳ��ḗ infusion, equivalent to em- em- ² + ��ǳ��ḗ a making wet) + -��ٳܲ� -ate ¹

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of embrocate¹

C17: from Medieval Latin �𳾲��ǳ��, from embrocha poultice, from Greek �𳾲��ǰ��ŧ lotion, infusion, from ��ǰ��ŧ a moistening

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On my way to the exit, a woman stops me to embrocate the back of my hand with gel.

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I had a certain remedy for that fell disease, a remedy so powerful that only a very small portion, about the size of a pea, was required to embrocate an afflicted member.

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Be that as it may, the newspapers have teemed with his 'injuria formæ,' and he has been embrocated, and invisible to all but the apothecary ever since.

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