embrocate, v. Med.
(ˈɛmbrəkeɪt)
Also 7 embrochate, imbrocate.
[f. med.L. embrocāt- ppl. stem of embrocāre, f. embrocha: see embroch.]
trans. To bathe or foment (a part of the body) with liquid, in order to remove or mitigate disease.
| 1612 Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 303 In Wounds of Gun-shot..Embrocate often. 1655 Culpepper Riverius v. i. 125 The Tongue may be embrochated with Oxymel. 1689 Moyle Sea Chyrurg. ii. vi. 49 When you have imbrocated all about with Oyl of Roses. 1722 Douglas in Phil. Trans. XXXII. 85, I embrocated all the Abdomen..with warm Ol. Chamæmel. 1815 Byron Lett. to Moore 12 June, He has been embrocated. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. II. xxv. 252. |