intuse

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English

Etymology

From Latin intundere (“to bruise”), from in- (“in”) + tundere, tusum (“to beat, bruise”).

Noun

intuse (plural intuses)

  1. (obsolete) A bruise; a contusion.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book), Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: ">…] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:
      The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe, To abate all spasm and soke the swelling bruzé; And, after having searcht the intuse deepe, She with her scarf did bind the wound.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “intuse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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