embrocation
Americannoun
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the act of embrocating a bruised or diseased part of the body.
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the liquid used for this; a liniment or lotion.
noun
Etymology
Origin of embrocation
Example Sentences
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The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2017
When all signs of pain are gone, the turpentine is then lowered to one-third, the embrocation being applied only once a-day, because it now gives actual pain.
From The Dog by Dinks
Then, for physic, an embrocation containing one-third of turpentine is used thrice daily, to rub the animal's back, neck, and belly with.
From The Dog by Dinks
And if an embrocation may be used with good effects in the latter case, why may it not be used in the former?
From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Joseph Warschauer
It is also used as an embrocation in articular rheumatism.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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