exulceration

English

Etymology

Latin exulceratio: compare French exulcération.

Noun

exulceration (countable and uncountable, plural exulcerations)

1. (obsolete) ulceration
   • 1719, John Quincy, Pharmacopœia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Compleat English Dispensatory, publ. A Bell (2nd ed., very much Improv'd), page 437.

     […] and thus it is likewiſe of ſervice in choletic Conſtitutions, and where the Shapneſs of Humours threatens Excoriations and Exulcerations.

2. (obsolete) fretting; festering; soreness
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, The Second Booke of Ecclesiasticall Politie:

     Which exulceration of mind made him apt to take all occaſions of contradiction.