embrocate

[em-broh-keyt, -bruh-]

verb (used with object)

embrocated, embrocating 

1. to moisten and rub with a liniment or lotion.

embrocate

/ ˈɛmbrəʊˌkeɪt /

verb

1. (tr) to apply a liniment or lotion to (a part of the body)

Word History and Origins

Origin of embrocate¹

1605–15; < Medieval Latin embrocātus (past participle of embrocāre ), equivalent to Late Latin embroch ( a ) (< Greek embrochḗ infusion, equivalent to em- em- ² + brochḗ a making wet) + -ātus -ate ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of embrocate¹

C17: from Medieval Latin embrocāre, from embrocha poultice, from Greek embrokhē lotion, infusion, from brokhē a moistening

Example Sentences

On my way to the exit, a woman stops me to embrocate the back of my hand with gel.

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I had a certain remedy for that fell disease, a remedy so powerful that only a very small portion, about the size of a pea, was required to embrocate an afflicted member.

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Be that as it may, the newspapers have teemed with his 'injuria formæ,' and he has been embrocated, and invisible to all but the apothecary ever since.

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