Word Meanings - CAMPHORATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To impregnate or treat with camphor.

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• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• CAMPHORACEOUS
  Of the nature of camphor; containing camphor. Dunglison.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• CAMPHORIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, camphor. Camphoric acid, a white crystallizable substance, C10H16O4, obtained from the oxidation of camphor. Note: Other acid of camphor are campholic acid, C10H18O2, and camphoronic acid, C9H12O5, white
• IMPREGNATE
  To come into contact with so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate. 3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue. 4. To infuse particles of another substance into;
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• CAMPHORATE; CAMPORATED
  Combined or impregnated with camphor. Camphorated oil, an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.
• TREATISER
  One who writes a treatise.
• CAMPHORATE
  To impregnate or treat with camphor.
• CAMPHOR
  camfara, alcanfor, LL. camfora, camphara, NGr. kafur, prob. fr. Skr. 1. A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnæus.). Camphor,
• TREATY
  tractatus; cf. L. tractatus a handling, treatment, consultation, 1. The act of treating for the adjustment of differences, as for forming an agreement; negotiation. "By sly and wise treaty." Chaucer. He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade.
• TREATISE
  1. A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract. Chaucer. He published a treatise in which he maintained that a marriage between a member of the Church of England and a dissenter was
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• MISTREAT
  To treat amiss; to abuse.
• MISENTREAT
  To treat wrongfully. Grafton.
• INTREATABLE
  Not to be entreated; inexorable.
• REIMPREGNATE
  To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.
• MALTREAT
  To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
• ENTREAT
  1. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11. 2. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition