Obs. [f. prec. ppl. adj., or on analogy of vbs. so formed. Cf. Fr. apostumer 16th c. in Littré.] (Mostly in pa. pple.)
1. pass. trans. To be affected with an ‘apostem.’
1582. Hester, Phiorav. Secr., II. xix. 97. When [the wounde] … is neither cancrenated nor apostumated.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 416. The heart ful of purulent matter; which deceiueth many vnskilfull people, who cry out that his heart was apostumated.
1671. Salmon, Syn. Med., II. xlix. 320. Both sides are aposthumated.
2. intr. To form an ‘apostem’ or abscess; to fester.
1616. Surflet & Markh., Countr. Farm, 171. The leaues of Sorrell … cause to Apostumate the swellings of the eyes.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVIII. 641. A young Man … bruised the back of his Hand: it inflamed and apostemated.
