a. ? Obs. rare. [ad. Gr. ἀλειπτικ-ός, f. ἀλείπτης a gymnastic trainer, orig. an anointer, f. ἀλείφ-ειν to anoint.] Of or belonging to gymnastic ‘training.’
1660. T. Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 423/1. The Aleiptick art, and, its nearest ally, Medicine, are design’d for the cure of Bodies.
