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impostume

British

/ ɪmˈpɒsθuːm, ɪmˈpɒstjuːm /

noun

an archaic word for abscess

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Etymology

Origin of impostume

C15: from Old French empostume, from Late Latin apostēma, from Greek, literally: separation (of pus), from aphistanai to remove, from histanai to stand

Example Sentences

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Latter end of June an impostume brake in my head.

From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by Aubrey, John

We feare more the cure then the disease, the surgion then the paine, the stroke then the impostume.

From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Herbert, Mary Sidney

And the blood inside this impostume is the musk that produces that powerful perfume.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry

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