deoppilate

verb

deoppilate

verb

Etymology From de- + oppilate.

1

Obsolete, Rare To deobstruct

  • [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.1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities”, in Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6:

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