deoppilate

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ oppilate.

Verb

deoppilate (third-person singular simple present deoppilates, present participle deoppilating, simple past and past participle deoppilated)

1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To free (something) from obstructions; to clear a passage through (something).
   • 1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities”, in Robert Boyle, Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6:

     [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deoppilate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)