embrocate

• Verbo anticuado que significa aplicar un medicamento líquido o ungüento sobre la piel, generalmente frotando.

An obsolete verb meaning to apply a liquid medication or liniment to the skin, typically by rubbing.

1. Anoint or apply oilC2formal

   To apply or administer an oil or ointment to someone, especially as part of a religious ceremony of blessing or healing.

   ungir con aceite

   • The priest would embrocate the sick with holy oil during the ritual.
   • In ancient times, they would embrocate newborn infants with scented balms.
   • The ceremony involved embrocating the statue with consecrated ointments.
   • He asked the herbalist to embrocate his wounds with a soothing remedy.

   Sinónimosanointapplyoilrubsmear