EMBROCATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embrocation mean? 

• EMBROCATION (noun)
  The noun EMBROCATION has 1 sense:

1. a medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain

  Familiarity information: EMBROCATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBROCATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

embrocation; liniment

Hypernyms ("embrocation" is a kind of...):

application; lotion (liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin)

Derivation:

embrocate (administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing)

 Context examples 

It is not very likely, my dear, that bathing should have been of use to her—and if I had known you were wanting an embrocation, I would have spoken to—“You seem to me to have forgotten Mrs. and Miss Bates,” said Emma, “I have not heard one inquiry after them.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Either bathing has been of the greatest service to her, or else it is to be attributed to an excellent embrocation of Mr. Wingfield's, which we have been applying at times ever since August.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)