? Obs. [ad. L. ambūstiōn-em, n. of action f. ambūr-ĕre, f. amb- about + ūrere to burn.] ‘A burn, a scald.’ J.
1623. Cockeram, Ambustion, scorching, scalding.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVIII. 662. Gun-shot Wounds, which are complicated with Ambustion.
1706. Phillips, Ambustion, a Solution of the continuity of the Parts, caus’d by some outward Burning; a Burn, or Scald.
1755. in Johnson.
1879. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
