erugate

English

Etymology

From Latin ērūgō, ērūgātus.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete, rare) To remove wrinkles from.
   • 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:

     [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;  […]

   • 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:

     It purgeth and erugates the face,  […]

   • 1671, Edward Phillips, The new world of English words:

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