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perfricate

perfricate verb: to rub over.

Verb

perfricate (third-person singular simple present perfricates, present participle perfricating, simple past and past participle perfricated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To rub over.
    • […] 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 […]1761, Robert Dossie, Theory and Practice of Chirurgical Pharmacy

Forms of perfricate

third-person singular presentperfricates
present participleperfricating
past participleperfricated
pastperfricated

Origin of perfricate

From Latin perfricatus, past participle of perfricare.

Questions about perfricate

What does perfricate mean?
Perfricate means to rub over.
What part of speech is perfricate?
Perfricate is a verb.
What is the past tense of perfricate?
The past tense of perfricate is perfricated.

Words near perfricate in the dictionary

  1. performing art
  2. performing arts
  3. performings
  4. performs
  5. perfosfamide
  6. perfricate
  7. perfricated
  8. perfricates
  9. perfricating
  10. perfrication
  11. perfrications

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