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Wiktionary

  1. imposthumenoun

    an abscess

  2. imposthumeverb

    to form an abscess

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. IMPOSTHUMEnoun

    A collection of purulent matter in a bag or cyst.

    Etymology: This seems to have been formed bycorruption from impostem, as South writes it; and impostem to have been written erroneously for apostem, ἀϖόστημα, an abscess.

    Now the rotten diseases of the South, ruptures, catarrhs, and bladders full of imposthumes, make preposterous discoveries. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

    An error in the judgment is like an impostem in the head, which is always noisome, and frequently mortal. South.

    Fumes cannot transude through the bag of an imposthume. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Imposthumenoun

    a collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess

  2. Imposthume

    same as Imposthumate

  3. Etymology: [A corruption of aposteme. See Aposteme.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Imposthume

    impos′tūm, n. an abscess.—v.i. Impos′thumāte, to form an imposthume or abscess.—v.t. to affect with an imposthume.—adj. affected with such.—n. one swelled or bloated.—n. Imposthumā′tion, the act of forming an abscess: an abscess. [A corr. of apostume, itself a corr. of aposteme—Gr. apostēma, a separation of corrupt matter—apo, away, and the root of histēmi, I set up.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of imposthume in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of imposthume in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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