† diaˈprune Obs.
Also diaprunum.
[ad. med.L. diaprūnum, f. dia-2 + L. prūnum plum. In F. diaprun (1700 in Hatz.-Darm.) formerly diaprunum.]
‘An electuary made of damask prunes and divers other simples, good to cool the body in hot burning feavers’ (Physical Dict. 1657).
| 1625 Hart Anat. Ur. ii. i. 55 They had purged him..with Diaprunum. 1639 J. W. tr. Guibert's Char. Physic i. 23 Mixe with it two drammes of diaprunes. |