emplastration
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin emplastratio (“a budding”).
Noun edit
emplastration (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Grafting by inoculation; budding.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:
- Emplastration in the Hortyard, is grafting by inocelation with a scutcheon.
- (medicine, obsolete) The application of a plaster or salve.
References edit
- “emplastration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.