emplastration

English

Etymology

Latin emplastratio (“a budding”).

Noun

emplastration (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Grafting by inoculation; budding.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

     Emplastration in the Hortyard, is grafting by inocelation with a scutcheon.

2. (medicine, obsolete) The application of a plaster or salve.

References

• “emplastration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.