Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To apply fumes or smoke to, as to the body in medical treatment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
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- verb To
fumigate from below. - verb To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
Etymologies
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Examples
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At nine o'clock I placed her legs in a bath of lukewarm water, and taught her how to suffumigate.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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At nine o'clock I placed her legs in a bath of lukewarm water, and taught her how to suffumigate.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 22: to London Giacomo Casanova 1761
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He was much given to debauchery, so that at some times the Daemons would not appear to the Speculator; he would then suffumigate: sometimes, to vex the spirits, he would curse them, fumigate with contraries.
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 William Lilly 1641
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At nine o’clock I placed her legs in a bath of lukewarm water, and taught her how to suffumigate.
treeseed commented on the word suffumigate
from The Free Dictionary:
v. t. 1. To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
January 30, 2008
treeseed commented on the word suffumigate
See vaporizer
In the 1950s Vicks VapoRub was combined with hot water vapor to suffumigate patients with bronchitis.
January 30, 2008