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English
Etymology
From Latin apozema, from Ancient Greek ἀπόζεμα (apózema, “to extract by boiling”), from the root ζέω (zéō, “to boil, seethe”), q. v.
Pronunciation
Noun
apozem (plural apozems)
- (medicine, obsolete) A decoction or infusion.
1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R Royston , and B Took, , →OCLC:a draught of her purging Apozem in the Morning
Translations
a medicinal decoction or infusion
References
“apozem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.