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English
Etymology
From Latin ērūgō, ērūgātus.
Verb
erugate (third-person singular simple present erugates, present participle erugating, simple past and past participle erugated)
- (obsolete, rare) To remove wrinkles from.
1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick : Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals ... : Methodically Digested in Five Books of Philosophical and Pharmaceutical Institutions; Three Books of Physical Materials, Galenical and Chymical ..., pages 694, 737:[page 694:] […] and erugates the belly after birth.
[page 737:] […] old Hags, to erugate or emend their Faces; herein following the prudence of Galen, though a Pagan, who disallows of not onely the Painting of Faces, but the Tinctures of Hair; […]
1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, Containing the Summe of All Authors, Both Ancient and Modern: Also an Introduction to Zoography and Mineralogy ... Universall Index of the Use and Vertues, page 176:It purgeth and erugates the face, […]
1671, Edward Phillips, The new world of English words:Ichthyocolla, (Greek) a kind of glew […] it is […] mixed with glutinative Salves, and others that take away spots and erugate the face.