Med. Obs. Also 7 eclegm, eclegmat. [a. (directly or through Fr. eclègme) med.L. eclegma (gen. eclegmat-is) for ecligma, a. Gr. ἔκλειγμα, f. ἐκλείχειν to lick out.]
‘Old term for a linctus, or form of medicine of a semifluid consistence, which is licked off the spoon’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1605. Daniel, Queene’s Arcadia, III. i. (1623). Eclegmats Embrochs, Lixiues, Cataplasmes.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., II. iv. I. v. (1676), 233/2. Confections, Treacle, Mithridate, Eclegmes or Linctures.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 271. No Eclegme … can be sent directly … into the Lungs.
