emplaster

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noun

A plaster.

OriginOld French emplastre ← Latin emplastrum ← Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον →
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Meanings

nounemplaster (plural emplasters)

plural emplasters

  1. obsoletemedicineA plaster.

    Liniments are made of the same matter to the like purpose: emplasters of herbs, flowers, roots, &c. with oyls, and other liquors mixt and boiled together.

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection v
verbemplaster (third-person singular simple present emplasters, present participle emplastering, simple past and past participle emplastered)

present singular third person emplasters · participle present emplastering · participle past emplastered · past emplastered

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo plaster.

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἔμπλαστρον
  2. Latinemplastrum
  3. Old Frenchemplastre
  4. Englishemplaster

From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).

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Chicago

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