Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- etc. See
impostumate , etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess.
- transitive verb To affect with an imposthume or abscess.
- adjective Imposthumated.
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Examples
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The specimens of local and ephemeral poetry that were printed in the colonial press in succeeding years make it easy to comprehend the failure of the project: the villanously rhymed effusions fairly imposthumate all the ribald vulgarity of the times; coarseness and dulness of subject and thought being rivalled only by the super-coarseness of the verbiage.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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