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Definition of Impostumes
1. impostume [n] - See also: impostume
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impostumes
Literary usage of Impostumes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Medicine (1906)
"... are understand impostumes, whiche commonly chance under ye arme ... Wherefore to
hele these impostumes, & specially to rype them, ..."
2. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Thomas, Edward Bouverie Pusey, William Benham (1909)
"... followed inflamed swelling, impostumes, and a putrified sore. My life being
such, was it life, O my God? And Thy faithful mercy hovered over me afar. ..."
3. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"The maturation of fruits, the maturation of drinks, and the maturation of impostumes
and ulcers. This last we refer to another place, where we shall handle ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... with the vilde impostumes of thy lewd corruptions : God bless good mindes from
the black enemy say I. 1 know you haue bene prying like the ..."
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