suffumigate

American

[suh-fyoo-mi-geyt] / səˈfyu mɪˌgeɪt /

verb (used with object)

suffumigated, suffumigating

to fumigate from below; apply fumes or smoke to.

suffumigate British

/ səˈfjuːmɪˌɡeɪt /

verb

(tr) to fumigate from or as if from beneath

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Other Word Forms

suffumigation

noun

Etymology

Origin of suffumigate

1580–90; < Latin suffūmigātus; see suf-, fumigate

Example Sentences

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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.

From William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681 by Ashmole, Elias

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