perfricate
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Etymology edit
Latin perfricatus, past participle of perfricare.
Verb edit
perfricate (third-person singular simple present perfricates, present participle perfricating, simple past and past participle perfricated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To rub over.
- 1761, Robert Dossie, Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy:
- […] they differ from embrocations, only in not being intended, like them, to be copiously used in washing or perfricating the part on which they are applied […]
Latin edit
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perfricāte