emplaster
verbEtymology From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).
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Obsolete To plaster.
emplaster
nounEtymology From Old French emplastre, from Latin emplastrum, from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron).
- Liniments are made of the same matter to the like purpose: emplasters of herbs, flowers, roots, &c. with oyls, and other liquors mixt and boiled together.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection v: