impostume
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Old French empostume, alteration of apostume (“apostume, large abscess”), from Latin apostema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστεμα (apóstema, “separation of pus into an abscess”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editimpostume (plural impostumes)
- (obsolete) An abscess.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220:
- Jason Phereus [was] utterly forsaken of all Physitians, by reason of an impostume he had in his breast […].
Verb
editimpostume (third-person singular simple present impostumes, present participle impostuming, simple past and past participle impostumed)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of imposthume