perfricate

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verb

To rub over.

OriginLatin perfricatus →
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Meanings

verbperfricate (third-person singular simple present perfricates, present participle perfricating, simple past and past participle perfricated)

present singular third person perfricates · participle present perfricating · participle past perfricated · past perfricated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo rub over.

    […] they differ from embrocations, only in not being intended, like them, to be copiously used in washing or perfricating the part on which they are applied […]

    1761, Robert Dossie, Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy

Origin

  1. Latinperfricatus
  2. Englishperfricate

From Latin perfricatus, past participle of perfricare.

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Chicago

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