Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To moisten and rub (a part of the body) with a liniment or lotion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To moisten and rub, as a bruised or injured part of the body, with a liquid substance, as with liniment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Med.) To moisten and rub (a diseased part) with a liquid substance, as with spirit, oil, etc., by means of a cloth or sponge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb medicine, transitive To
moisten andrub (a diseased part) with aliquid substance, as withspirit ,oil , etc., by means of acloth orsponge .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Medieval Latin embrocāre, embrocāt-, from Late Latin embrocha, lotion, from Greek embrokhē, from embrekhein, to foment : en-, in; see en– + brekhein, to wet.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
New Latin embrocatus, past participle of embrocare; compare Ancient Greek lotion, fomentation.
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Examples
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Mr. Forbes, whom Selby had called in, by this time arrived; and, having declared that it would be injurious to her to take a journey in her present situation, ordered her to bed, and said he would send her something to embrocate the part affected. —
The Offspring of Fancy Anonymous 1778
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