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Webster 1913 Edition

Apostemate

A-pos′te-mate

,
Verb.
I.
[See
Aposteme
.]
To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
Wiseman.

Webster 1828 Edition

Apostemate

APOS'TEMATE

,
Verb.
I.
To form into an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.

Definition 2024

apostemate

apostemate

English

From aposteme +‎ -ate.

Verb

apostemate ‎(third-person singular simple present apostemates, present participle apostemating, simple past and past participle apostemated)

  1. To become an aposteme; to pustulate.
    • 1734, Richard Wiseman, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, Volume 1, page 167,
      […] and afterwards the Breaſt ſwelled, and ſeemed to apoſtemate.

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