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Definition of Embrocated
1. embrocate [v] - See also: embrocate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embrocated
Literary usage of Embrocated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"The poor wench is as elaborately dosed, bled, embrocated, and otherwise harried
and bedeviled as if there had been really something the matter with her; ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"On leaving him on the 30th, he was advised to substitute one-sixteenth of a grain
of morphia for the " cholera medicine;" to have the abdomen embrocated ..."
3. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"... faithfully embrocated in the presence of both his parents. I could not speak
my thanks in their language, but I contributed my scanty stock of silk ..."
4. Domestic Medicine: Or, a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by by William Buchan (1798)
"In the milk-fever, the breads may be embrocated with a little warm lin- feed-oil,
or the leaves of red cabbage may be applied to them. ..."
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