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emplastration

noun — 2 senses

emplastration

noun

Etymology Latin emplastratio (“a budding”).

1

Obsolete Grafting by inoculation; budding.

  • Emplastration in the Hortyard, is grafting by inocelation with a scutcheon.1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
2

Medicine, Sciences Obsolete The application of a plaster or salve.

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