▪ I. † emˈplaster, n. Obs.
Forms: 4 enplaster, -tre, 5–7 emplastre, -aister, -ayster, -aystre, (6 erron. emplasture); also 6–7 implaster, -aister.
[a. OF. emplastre (F. emplâtre), L. emplastrum, ad. Gr. ἔµπλαστρον plaster or salve, f. ἐµπλάσσειν, f. ἐν in + πλάσσειν to mould.]
1. Med. or Surg. = plaster.
| 1382 Wyclif Isa. xxxviii. 21 Thei shulden taken an hep of fyges, and..make an enplastre vpon the wounde. 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vii, Lectuary, emplaystre, or pocyon. a 1500 Med. Receipts in Rel. Ant. I. 54 Tak everferne..and tak mynt, and mak ane emplaster. 1564 Becon Gov. Virtue (1566) 50 b, Neither hearbe nor emplasture hathe healed them. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. xcix. 141 Oyntments, oyles, or emplaisters. 1601 Holland Pliny xx. ix, If the said implaister be made with bean-meale. c 1720 W. Gibson Farrier's Dispens. xvi. (1734) 302 The whole is brought to the consistence of an Emplaster. 1751 Chambers Cycl., Emplaster, popularly called Plaster. 1809 Parkins Culpepper's Eng. Physic. Enlarged 361 The Greek emplaisters consisted of these ingredients. |
| fig. 138. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 166 Enplaster of cursing for heele of monnis soule. 1563–87 Foxe A. & M. (1596) 256/2 Minister some spirituall implaster. a 1656 Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 79 Lay on the soveraign emplaisters of the..mercy of our Blessed Redeemer. |
2. Used to render L. emplastrum: see emplastration 1.
| 1601 Holland Pliny II. 518 The manner of graffing by way of emplaistre or scutcheon. |
Hence † emˈplasterwise, adv., in the form of a plaster, as a plaster is applied.
| 1551 Turner Herbal i. C iij b, It [amomum] helpeth them that are bytten of scorpiones laid to emplaisterwise with basill. 1562 Ibid. ii. 13 b, The sede [of sonne flower] layd to emplasterwise, dryeth away hanginge wartes. |
▪ II. † emˈplaster, v. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 emplastre, 6–7 emplaster, -aistre, -ayster; also 7 implaistre.
[a. OF. emplastre-r, ad. L. emplastrāre, f. emplastr-um: see prec.]
1. a. To cover with a plaster; to plaster over; also fig. b. To spread on as a plaster.
| c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 1053 Als fair as ye his [Solomon's] name emplastre, He was a lecchour and an ydolastre. 1541 R. Copland Guydon's Formul. Y ij b, To emplayster the place with diaculum. 1585 H. Lloyd Treas. Health. D ij, Galbanum emplastered to the hed is of great efficacye. 1601 Holland Pliny xx. ix, Colewort is soveraigne good to be implaistred upon those tumors. 1633 tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1651) 50 Let the body be Emplaistred with Mastick. |
2. A rendering of L. emplastrare to bud trees (misinterpreted in quot. 1656); see emplastration 1.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 86 The pechys in this moone Emplastred are. 1656 W. Dugard Gate Lat. Unl. §324.91 He..besmears them, being implanted (which is to emplaster). |
Hence emˈplastering vbl. n.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 350 Oon in the stok, on graffeth under rynde; Emplastering an other dothe in kynde. Ibid. vii. 92 Emplasturyng accordeth with the tree That hath a juce of fattenesse in the rynde. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 72 Emplastring or inoculation. 1633 tr. Bacon's Life & Death (1651) 50 Let this Bath with the Emplaistring..be renewed every fifth day. |