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Wiktionary
imposthumenoun
an abscess
imposthumeverb
to form an abscess
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
Imposthumenoun
a collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess
Imposthume
same as Imposthumate
Etymology: [A corruption of aposteme. See Aposteme.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of imposthume in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of imposthume in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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