obduce
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin obducere, obductum; ob (see ob-) + ducere (“to lead”).
Verb
[edit]obduce (third-person singular simple present obduces, present participle obducing, simple past and past participle obduced)
- (obsolete) To cover.
- 1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind:
- Animal exhibits its Face in the native colour of its Skin but Man; all others are covered with Feathers, or Hair, or a Cortex that is obduced over the Cutis as in Elephants and some sort of Indian Dogs.
References
[edit]- “obduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]obdūce