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Webster 1913 Edition


Perfricate

Per′fri-cate

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
perfricatus
, p. p. of
perfricare
.]
To rub over.
Bailey.

Definition 2024


perfricate

perfricate

English

Verb

perfricate (third-person singular simple present perfricates, present participle perfricating, simple past and past participle perfricated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To rub over.
    • 1761, Robert Dossie, Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy:
      [] they differ from embrocations, only in not being intended, like them, to be copiously used in washing or perfricating the part on which they are applied []

Latin

Verb

perfricāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of perfricō