perfricate

English

Etymology

Latin perfricatus, past participle of perfricare.

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
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