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suggillate

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Etymology

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See suggillation.

Verb

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suggillate (third-person singular simple present suggillates, present participle suggillating, simple past and past participle suggillated)

  1. (transitive) To beat livid, or black and blue.
    • 1852, Charles Delucena Meigs, Obstetrics: The Science and the Art:
      It is frightfully suggillated, and often covered with blebs filled with yellow or bloody serum

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for suggillate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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suggillāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of suggillō