Obs. Also 5 emplastracioun, 6 emplaistration, 6 implastration. [ad. L. emplastrātiōn-em, noun of action f. emplastrāre: see EMPLASTER v.]
1. A mode of budding trees mentioned by Latin writers; so called from the piece of bark surrounding the bud, which was attached like a ‘plaster’ (L. emplastrum) to the tree.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., VII. 91. In Juyl and nowe solempne insicion Hath treen, that men calle emplastracioun.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. Gloss., Emplastration in the Hortyard, is grafting by inocelation with a scutcheon.
1745. trans. Columella’s Husb., V. xi. Emplastration, or … Inoculation.
2. The application of a plaster.
1545. T. Raynold, Womans Booke, 74 b. Ministred … by fumes, or odours, or emplastration, [etc.].
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 394. To returne againe to the former emplastration.
1633. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death (1650), 63. Closure up of the body by Emplastration.
