[f. L. luxāt-, ppl. stem of luxāre, f. luxus dislocated, a. Gr. λοξός.] trans. To dislocate, put out of joint. Also fig.
1623. in Cockeram.
1644. Barwick, Querela Cantabr., Pref. Thus the Knipperdolings of the age … luxated all the joints of Christianity in this kingdom.
1681. Glanvill, Sadducismus, I. (1726), 57. Descartes by his jocular metaphysical Meditations has so luxated and distorted the rational Faculties of some, otherwise, sober … Persons.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., X. 368. The Spine luxated inwards cannot be restored.
1760. Phil. Trans., LI. 679. My father was sent for to a man who had luxated his thigh bone.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 157/1. The foot … had been luxated.
1846. Brittan, trans. Malgaigne’s Man. Oper. Surg., 237. Depress the metacarpus to luxate the bones.
Hence Luxated ppl. a., Luxating vbl. sb.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., Pref. (1678), 3. Who without Chirurgery can hope to cure Broken or Luxated parts?
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 195. Dragon’s Blood … strengthens luxated Joynts.
1775. Ash, Suppl., Luxating, the act of putting out of joint.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 549. The projection of the luxated portion into the abdomen.
