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impostume

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15
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19
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9
Pronunciation
/ɪmˈpɒstjuːm/ (UK)

Definition of impostume

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete)An abscess.
    “The great impoſtume of the realme vvas dravvne / Euen to a head: the multitudinous ſpavvne / VVas the corruption, vvhich did make it ſvvell / VVith hop'd ſedition (the burnt ſeed of hell.)”
    “Jaſon Phereus [Jason of Pherae] [was] utterly forſaken of all Phyſitians, by reaſon of an impoſtume he had in his breaſt […]”
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noun

  1. (obsolete)An abscess.
    “The great impoſtume of the realme vvas dravvne / Euen to a head: the multitudinous ſpavvne / VVas the corruption, vvhich did make it ſvvell / VVith hop'd ſedition (the burnt ſeed of hell.)”
    “Jaſon Phereus [Jason of Pherae] [was] utterly forſaken of all Phyſitians, by reaſon of an impoſtume he had in his breaſt […]”

verb

  1. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of imposthume.

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Etymology

From Old French empostume, alteration of apostume (“apostume, large abscess”), from Latin apostema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστεμα (apóstema, “separation of pus into an abscess”).

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