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impostume

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9 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈpɒstjuːm/Sorted eimmopstuStarts with IEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Impostume is an abscess or swelling.

Word origin

From Old French empostume, alteration of apostume (“apostume, large abscess”), from Latin apostema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόστεμα (apóstema, “separation of pus into an abscess”).

Used in a sentence

  • The great impoſtume of the realme vvas dravvne / Euen to a head: the multitudinous ſpavvne / VVas the corruption, vvhich did make it ſvvell / VVith hop'd ſedition (the burnt ſeed of hell.)
  • Jaſon Phereus [Jason of Pherae] [was] utterly forſaken of all Phyſitians, by reaſon of an impoſtume he had in his breaſt […]

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