v. Med. Also 7 embrochate, imbrocate. [f. med.L. embrocāt- ppl. stem of embrocāre, f. embrocha: see EMBROCH.] trans. To bathe or foment (a part of the body) with liquid, in order to remove or mitigate disease.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1655), 303. In Wounds of Gun-shot…. Embrocate often.
1655. Culpepper, Riverius, V. i. 125. The Tongue may be embrochated with Oxymel.
1689. Moyle, Sea Chyrurg., II. vi. 49. When you have imbrocated all about with Oyl of Roses.
1722. Douglas, in Phil. Trans., XXXII. 85. I embrocated all the Abdomen … with warm Ol. Chamæmel.
1815. Byron, Lett. to Moore, 12 June. He has been embrocated.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xxv. 252. his exorbitant little nangah faithfully embrocated in the presence of both his parents.
