Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To apply fumes or smoke to, as to the body in medical treatment.
Wiktionary
- v. To fumigate from below.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part.
Examples
“At nine o'clock I placed her legs in a bath of lukewarm water, and taught her how to suffumigate.”
“He was much given to debauchery, so that at some times the Daemons would not appear to the Speculator; he would then suffumigate: sometimes, to vex the spirits, he would curse them, fumigate with contraries.”
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times From the Year 1602 to 1681
“At nine o’clock I placed her legs in a bath of lukewarm water, and taught her how to suffumigate.”
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treeseed See vaporizer
In the 1950s Vicks VapoRub was combined with hot water vapor to suffumigate patients with bronchitis. Jan 29, 2008
treeseed from The Free Dictionary:
v. t. 1. To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body in medicine; to fumigate in part. Jan 29, 2008