▪ I. † ˈluxate, ppl. a. Obs.
[ad. L. luxāt-us, f. luxāre: see next.]
= luxated.
| 1597 J. King On Jonas (1618) 399 He..liueth not within our Land (sauing in a few disordered and luxate members). 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 110 Applied with the ashes of a Womans haire it cureth luxate joynts. |
▪ II. luxate, v.
(ˈlʌkseɪt)
[f. L. luxāt-, ppl. stem of luxāre, f. luxus dislocated, a. Gr. λοξός.]
trans. To dislocate, put out of joint. Also fig.
| 1623 in Cockeram. 1644 Barwick Querela Cantabr. Pref., Thus the Knipperdolings of the age..luxated all the joints of Christianity in this kingdom. 1681 Glanvill Sadducismus i. (1726) 57 Descartes by his jocular metaphysical Meditations has so luxated and distorted the rational Faculties of some, otherwise, sober..Persons. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. x. 368 The Spine luxated inwards cannot be restored. 1760 Phil. Trans. LI. 679 My father was sent for to a man who had luxated his thigh bone. 1835–6 Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 157/1 The foot..had been luxated. 1846 F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Man. Oper. Surg. 237 Depress the metacarpus to luxate the bones. |
Hence ˈluxated ppl. a., ˈluxating vbl. n.
| 1634 T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. Pref. (1678) 3 Who without Chirurgery can hope to cure Broken or Luxated parts? 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 195 Dragon's Blood..strengthens luxated Joynts. 1775 Ash, Suppl., Luxating, the act of putting out of joint. 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 549 The projection of the luxated portion into the abdomen. |