erugate

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verb

To remove wrinkles from.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

verberugate (third-person singular simple present erugates, present participle erugating, simple past and past participle erugated)

present singular third person erugates · participle present erugating · participle past erugated · past erugated

  1. obsoleterareTo remove wrinkles from.

    It purgeth and erugates the face, […]

    1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, Both Ancient and Modern: Also an Introduction to Zoography and Mineralogy ... Universall Index of the Use and Vertues, page 176
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    [page 694:] […] and erugates the belly after birth. [page 737:] […] old Hags, to erugate or emend their Faces; herein following the prudence of Galen, though a Pagan, who disallows of not onely the Painting of Faces, but the Tinctures of Hair; […]

    1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals ... : Methodically Digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials, Galenical and Chymical ..., pages 694, 737

    Ichthyocolla, (Greek) a kind of glew […] it is […] mixed with glutinative Salves, and others that take away spots and erugate the face.

    1671, Edward Phillips, The new world of English words

Origin

  1. Latinērūgō
  2. Englisherugate

From Latin ērūgō, ērūgātus.

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