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

Then, for physic, an embrocation containing one-third of turpentine is used thrice daily, to rub the animal's back, neck, and belly with.

From The Dog by Dinks

Now it would have been singularly easy to have affixed a different label to my unrivaled peach-bloom cosmetic and have supplied him with a sure-to-heal embrocation.

From A Prairie Courtship by Bindloss, Harold

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

At the same time, some stimulating embrocation must be employed to the back, belly, and hind-legs, which must be well rubbed with it four times daily, or the oftener the better.

From The Dog by Dinks