verb

• Bathe (a diseased or painful part of the body) with liquid.

  ‘Embrocate the part affected with your hand, warmed, for a quarter of an hour.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He had frequently seen the backs of sailors, who had been flogged, embrocated with Salted Brandy.’
  • ‘If the skin be very tense, it may be embrocated with a mixture of three fourths of oil of roses, and one fourth of common vinegar.’
  • ‘Two hours after this, the flesh about the wound was cut out, and the part burnt with a hot iron, and the arm embrocated with warm oil.’
  • ‘Embrocating the arm with oil only abated the swelling.’

  Synonyms

  rub, rub down, knead, palpate, manipulate, pummel, work