embrocate

From Medieval Latin embrocatus, past participle of Late Latin embrocare, from embrocha, from Ancient Greek ἐμβροχή (embrokhḗ, “lotion, fomentation”).

embrocate (third-person singular simple present embrocates, present participle embrocating, simple past and past participle embrocated)

1. (medicine, archaic, transitive) To rub (a diseased part) with a moistened or liquid substance, usually an oil, on a cloth or sponge.

• embrocation

• “embrocate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.