impostume
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of impostume
C15: from Old French empostume, from Late Latin apostēma, from Greek, literally: separation (of pus), from aphistanai to remove, from histanai to stand
Example Sentences
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We feare more the cure then the disease, the surgion then the paine, the stroke then the impostume.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Mary Sidney Herbert
And the blood inside this impostume is the musk that produces that powerful perfume.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Henry Yule
Latter end of June an impostume brake in my head.
From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey
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