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English
Etymology
From de- + oppilate.
Verb
deoppilate (third-person singular simple present deoppilates, present participle deoppilating, simple past and past participle deoppilated)
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To free (something) from obstructions; to clear a passage through (something).
1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities”, in Robert Boyle, Tracts . About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. , London: W H for Ric Davis, →OCLC, page 6:[S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.