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Webster 1913 Edition
Perfricate
Per′fri-cate
,Verb.
T.
[L.
perfricatus
, p. p. of perfricare
.] To rub over.
Bailey.
Definition 2025
perfricate
perfricate
English
Verb
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 […]
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