embrocation

Example Sentences

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The last sentence, applying a little irony to herself as if it were an embrocation, is what we should value most.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017

But this Iris hastily refused, and in a few moments she left the shop in triumph with a bottle of Roche’s embrocation neatly done up in white paper and sealing-wax.

From A Pair of Clogs by Walton, Amy

It is used chiefly in India mixed with oil as an embrocation for rheumatism; given internally it is regarded as an antisyphilitic.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Ordinary muscular strains generally yield to a good rubbing with an embrocation.

From Rowing by Lehmann, Rudolf Chambers

And if an embrocation may be used with good effects in the latter case, why may it not be used in the former?

From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Warschauer, Joseph